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Quezon y Molina
[key-zon ee moh-lee-nuh, -sohn, ke-sawn ee maw-lee-nah]
noun
Manuel Luis 1878–1944, Philippine political leader; 1st president of the Philippine Commonwealth 1933–44.
Quezon y Molina
/ keˈθɔn i moˈlina, ˈkeɪzɒn iː mɒˈliːnə /
noun
Manuel Luis (maˈnwɛl lwis). 1878–1944, Philippine statesman: first president of the Philippines (from 1935) and head of the government in exile after the Japanese conquest of the islands in World War II
Example Sentences
Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office?
In an air-raid shelter somewhere in the Philippines, behind Douglas MacArthur's embattled lines, mercurial little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was sworn in for his second term as President of the Philippine Commonwealth.
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