Word: elpidio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philippine reaction to the plan has been more favorable than expected. So far the free Philippine press has placed the blame for the country's present position squarely on corrupt mismanagement of affairs by President Elpidio Quirino's government. The press has welcomed the Bell Commission as a means of lifting the country back to solvency, in spite of the many strings attached...
Although the U.S. has poured some $2 billion into the Philippines since 1945, the new republic is on the verge of bankruptcy. In Washington last February, the Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino had talked over his troubles with President Truman, asked for a U.S. Economic Mission. Truman sent to Manila able Daniel W. Bell, former Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and now president of the American Security & Trust...
Ever since he became President in 1948, pudgy little Elpidio Quirino has regularly announced that his government forces have routed the Philippines' Communist-led Huk guerrillas. Two weeks ago, the Huks went on the rampage again, attacked 15 villages, killed some 100 Filipino soldiers and civilians. Quirino decided it was time to tell the people the truth. He went on the radio, admitted his soldiers had failed to stem the Huk tide, called on his people to form a "citizens' army...
When chubby Mrs. Maria Concepcion Lim Planas of Manila read about the U.N.'s appeal for men and arms for the Korean war, she saw her duty clear. It happened, she wrote to the Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino, that she had a lot of war material on her hands, and she would be delighted to contribute it to the U.N.'s cause. The Manila Evening News quickly made a report: Housewife Planas had several depots of "armored cars, trucks, machine guns . . . 1,000 tanks . . . all sorts of field equipment... the biggest pool of war equipment...
Married. Victoria Quirino, 19, only surviving daughter of Philippines President Elpidio Quirino (two daughters, his wife and one of his two sons were murdered by the Japanese in 1945); and Luis Gonzalez; 26, gentleman-rancher; in Manila...