President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth, junketing in Europe, has not been in Manila since U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt arrived there for duty last month. By last week ...

Manuel L. Quezon, the little brown cricket who for three years has been the Philippine Commonwealth’s first President, passed his 60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his ...

The American Governor-General only retained veto power. The third period of independence was the Philippine Commonwealth. In 1934, the Tydings-McDuffie Act passed the United States Congress and ...

Camp Murphy was established on Jan. 11, 1935. The camp was located in Quezon City not far from Fort William McKinley. The ...

Roosevelt issued a presidential order "calling into service of the United States of America all the organized military forces of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines," according ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 5 July 2023 More than 7,000 islands make up the Philippines, but the bulk of its fast-growing population lives on just 11 of them.

"Manuel Luis Quezon, president of the Philippine commonwealth, came to Asheville yesterday in search of rest and health," an article from April 20, 1944, states. "He was accompanied by Mrs ...

The Philippine Commonwealth Government (the Philippines had not yet gained independence from the United States) escaped to Washington in May 1942; Arturo joined the government in exile soon after.