Word: elpidio
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Even though election day is three months away, Filipinos (who model their campaigning on what they imagine U.S. electioneering to be) were going at it hot & heavy last week. President Elpidio Quirino was handicapped by being in the U.S. to recover from an operation on his ulcers, and by the fact that Eisenhower had so far not invited him to Denver. Carlos Romulo was handicapped by the fact that his campaign had not caught on, and that he felt it necessary to issue daily statements that he would not pull out because of "my sacred duty to thousands." That left...
...Manila from north, east and south, the Japanese garrison went berserk, killing 40,000 Filipinos in a 20-day orgy. Among those machine-gunned to death in the streets: the wife and three of the children of the man who is now President of the Philippine Republic, Elpidio Quirino. After the war, the Philippine government condemned 79 Japanese to death and 48 more to long prison terms, for these and hundreds of other atrocities. Charged with "command responsibility" for the rape of Manila, Lieut. General Shizuo Yokoyama was sentenced to death...
Although he is suffering from bursitis, malaria, nervous exhaustion, kidney and heart complications and perhaps stomach ulcers, Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, 62, was not too sick to take all his authority with him when he flew to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for medical treatment. Vice President Fernando Lopez, now one of Quirino's political enemies, will only preside over social functions and handle the occasional ceremonies that call for a Vice President. Anything else, said the ailing Quirino, candidate for reelection, will be handled by the President by transpacific telephone...
...roofed basketball stadium, 863 delegates of the Philippines' Liberal Party gathered one day last week to nominate a presidential candidate. For the first time in the party's brief postwar history, it had a choice to make. The alternatives: to renominate powerful and clever President Elpidio Quirino for a second term, or shuck him and his corruption-tainted regime and nominate peppery Carlos Romulo, ex-Foreign Secretary, ex-president of the United Nations General Assembly...
...been fraud." But Senator Cabili knew that all was over. "You have won the nomination, but you have lost the election," he cried, then led a score or more of Romulo backers out of the stadium. Quirino's supporters then took a vote on the renomination of Elpidio Quirino. The result: unanimous...