Word: huks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contest between the popular will, which surged up behind the young (46). Huk-tighting national hero, Ramon Magsaysay, and the corruption-pocked regime of ailing President Elpidio Quirino. Quirino men who came to power in a corrupt election four years ago had orders to win at all costs. The country seethed with reports-some true, some floated by the opposition-of administration money to juggle poll-watching police and army officers, to stuff ballot boxes, to buy Quirino votes and to intimidate Magsaysay voters...
Dressed casually in slacks and tan printed sport shirt, Huk-fighting Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Aug. 24) called last week on Rival Presidential Candidate Carlos P. Romulo, in Romulo's palatial home outside Manila. For half an hour they talked in a study jammed with autographed photographs, medals and other mementos of Romulo's career among the celebrities of the world, as brigadier general, ambassador and U.N. Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will...
...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 most of the excitement to Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk fighter...
Angry Carlos Romulo was undecided whether to run as a third-party candidate, or to throw his strength to Nacionalista Nominee Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-fighting ex-Secretary of Defense...
...convention in which to combat Quirino's political skill, his control of the party machinery and of governmental patronage. The odds were heavy against him. Should he manage to beat the islands' slickest politician for the nomination, his opponent in the November election would be the popular Huk-slayer, Ramon Magsaysay. But was Carlos Romulo downhearted? True to form, he beamed a toothy smile for photographers, uttered a headline: "I will not retreat...