Word: baguio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepherd Chiang had laid the basis for new confidence a week ago by flying to Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines. There he conferred with Philippine President Elpidio Quirino on preparation for an anti-Communist pact which other Asiatic countries would be invited to join...
...Herbert Zipper is remembered by thousands for his yearly concerts in Baguio and Manila. He developed talent amongst the Filipinos, and was loved and respected by his musicians and his audiences as a brilliant man who knew our tastes and never tried to cram anything down our throats. He seems to be following the same pattern in Brooklyn [TIME, March...
...returning Americans approached Manila, Roxas and his family were taken to Baguio under guard. In April, with his family and four members of the puppet cabinet, Roxas hiked three days through the hills to the U.S. lines...
...Quezon arrived in Washington as Resident Commissioner to the U.S. from the Filipino people. In 1942, as President of the Commonwealth, he arrived there again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...
Whisked to Baguio, Yamashita formally surrendered to Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, ordered the 40,000 Japanese troops in the Philippines to give...