Word: elpidio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast...
Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...
...miles of Manila. They have large supplies of firearms, including machine guns and mortars, which they got from the U.S. when they fought the Japanese as guerrillas, or took from the Japanese after the surrender. Last year, Huk Leader Luis Taruc, an avowed Communist, made an agreement with President Elpidio Quirino to register the Huks' arms in exchange for an amnesty, but the Huks turned in few arms, and fighting grew bitterer than ever. Said Governor Chioco: "We must use both our fists. In its right hand the government must have a gun. In the left hand it must...
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...
...believe the Huks did it," said shocked President Elpidio Quirino, when he heard the news. "Mrs. Quezon was loved too much." Police assured Quirino that the Huks were responsible, all right. At Doña Aurora's funeral, the sobbing President placed a single flower on the grave of the widow. Then, over the Philippine radio, he called for an all-out campaign against the terrorists...