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Quezon y Molina

[ key-zon ee moh-lee-nuh, -sohn; Spanish ke-sawn ee maw-lee-nah ]

noun

  1. Ma·nuel Luis [mah-, nwel, lwees], 1878–1944, Philippine political leader; 1st president of the Philippine Commonwealth 1933–44.


Quezon y Molina

/ keˈθɔn i moˈlina; ˈkeɪzɒn iː mɒˈliːnə /

noun

  1. Quezon y MolinaManuel Luis18781944MPhilippinePOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state 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
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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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