Word: jose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last November's presidential election also left an unsavory taste in the Philippines. Most Filipinos think that victorious President Elpidio Quirino, anxious to forestall any congressional investigation into the election results, made a deal with Jose Avelino, who had been suspended as president of the Philippine Senate for trafficking in government-owned beer. Avelino still controlled enough votes in Congress to get Quirino's election certified as legal. And there is no doubt about the fact that Quirino later helped Avelino to get back his Senate presidency, then sent him flying off on an expensive world tour...
Most prominent of the extreme nationalists is Jose Laurel, Quirino's chief opponent in the last election and head of the Nationalist Party. Laurel had Huk support during the election. If he chose, popular Jose Laurel could be useful in an anti-Communist front against the Huks, but he refuses to cooperate unless Quirino's Liberal Party publicly admits that it cannot handle the job alone and publicly asks the help of the Nationalists...
Half-colours were awarded to the following regular players on the first and second fifteen's: Thorpe Kelly, Audy Ecklund, Hollis Hunnewell, Doug Purdy, Pierre Lelandais, John Harley, Gerry Dekoch, Al Green, Bill Miller, Ken Kunhardt, Charley Whiting, Jose Soriano, Kit Kiang, Jay Lyons, Dwight Nishimura, Bill Swan, George Whitney, Jerry Cummings, and Sturgiss Eaton...
...mediation, he sent a thank-you gift of 2,000 Japanese cherry trees to the city of Washington in 1909. When the trees reached the U.S., however, the Department of Agriculture looked the gift trees in the bark and found they were heavily infested with the San Jose and the West Indian peach scale, Oriental moths, earwigs, and thrips. The Department had them destroyed...
Lover's Choice. In Detroit, Mrs. Patricia J. Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband thought "it was very funny to kiss the dog, give me a pat on the head and walk out the door." In San Jose, Calif., the court granted Mrs. Marcia Lightner a divorce when she quoted her husband as saying "I love [my] horse more than any human in the world...