Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorry. In Manila, U.S. Army Prisoner Enrique Jikiti Ymamura, head of the Japanese Army's public assistance and liaison office during the occupation, hopefully filed a petition for Filipino citizenship...
Only twice before had Filipinos tasted the excitement of electing a President. Never before had they enjoyed the privilege of making a choice. As he went to the polls in last week's close, tropic heat, a Filipino might reasonably feel both elated and nervous...
...Manila last week a Filipino could clip a perfecto on whose gaudy band was a picture of President Sergio Osmeña, and light it from a match pack carrying the picture of fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuña. Over Manila streets and provincial roads, campaign banners fluttered from bamboo arches. Poster-covered jeeps careened through the towns. The first contested presidential election in Philippine history was at hand (April...
...were confused. President Sergio Osmeña was the candidate of the "conservative wing" of the Nacionalista Party. But Osmeña's strongest blocs of support were far from conservative. Manuel Roxas (rhymes with slow boss) wore the label of the Nacionalista's "liberal wing." But Filipino liberal elements-the National Peasant Unionists and the restless, Communist-tinged Hukbalahaps-bitterly hate...
They got $625 from a Filipino lawyer, put up $825 between themselves. The editors took pen names: Utin, whose name is a dirty word in Tagalog, became Eric Raymond. His partner, wanting something fancier than Schutz, became Chris Edwards. The first issue of the Philippine-American was peddled in horse-drawn jitney carts, was a 2,000-copy sellout...