Word: elpidio
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...proof that the election was honest was incontrovertible: the ins took a terrible shellacking. President Elpidio Quirino, well-meaning but weak, the leader of a party infected with corruption, had come to power in an election as crooked as a hatful of fishhooks. Last week, in almost every reach of the islands, his Liberals lost to the opposition Nacionalistas, led by Jose Laurel, the able but embittered man who was President of the Philippines under Japanese rule. (Collaboration has largely ceased to be a political issue in the Philippines since the late Manuel Roxas, once No. 2 in the puppet...
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore received two VIPatients. After a visit to the White House to sign the Philippine-U.S. defense pact, President Elpidio Quirino hustled over to a four-room suite for a check on how he was recovering from last year's kidney-stone operation. Señora Maria Delgado Odria, wife of Peru's President, arrived for a thorough physical exam...
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...