Word: laurelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 regime, became postwar President with the tacit blessing of Douglas MacArthur...
Nine of the 24 seats in the Senate were at issue. Laurel's Nacionalistas, with the returns almost complete, appear to have won them all, giving them possible control of the Senate. In Quirino's capital of Manila, a Nacionalista became mayor by a 3-to-1 majority...
...moved over to Big Steel; he has financed Big Steel's expansion out of earnings. Both Olds and Voorhees have offices at 71 Broadway, Big Steel's traditional nerve center, where Fairless joins them each Tuesday afternoon, commuting from Pittsburgh in his private car, the Laurel Ridge...
Legal Medicine Department experts clashed with a Plymouth medical examiner in the Barnstable Superior Court yesterday over the charge of attempted abortion on Laurel Prestat. Miss Prestat was driven, dead, to a Plymouth undertaker's last...
Meanwhile, another member of the Legal Medicine Department, Dr. Bruce Harold, told a superior court in Barnstable yesterday, that Laurel Prestat, recently found dead outside that town, had been strangled to death while on her back. He added that two small needle holes were found in her arm. The testimony was given in the trial of Dr. Jackson M. Rice of Hyannis, accused of attempted abortion...