Word: magsaysayism
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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...
...bought their votes. In Pasay a city near Manila, armed toughs marched into several polling places and made off with the ballot boxes. In Precinct 99 of Manila, a masked man deposed the election commissioner and announced that he would count the votes. His tally: Quirino. 149; Magsaysay. 1. There was some violence, ten deaths (six of them in gang-ridden Cavite, southwest of Manila, where pro-Magsaysay policemen shot up a small band of gun-toting Quirino supporters...
...both the violence and the cheating were small scale: the democratic process, triumphed. Some 4,200,000 Filipinos went to the polls to mark ballots with pencil and thumbprint. In the cleanest, calmest election in their six years of self-government, they elected vigorous, colorful Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' first authentic "man of the people." by a 2-to-1 landslide (2,890,401 to 1,292,395), gave Magsaysay's Nationalist-Democratic coalition a whopping majority in the House (67 to 31, with 4 still in doubt) and a solid one in the Senate...
...People Like Americans. In many ways, the Magsaysay victory was a U.S. victory. In 1950 when the menace of the Communist-led Huks threatened Manila itself, U.S. diplomats persuaded President Quirino to hand the Huk-fighting job to Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced mog-sigh-sigh), then the Liberal Party Representative from Zambales (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951 et seq.). A carpenter's son who got his engineering degree at the University of the Philippines, for a time worked in a U.S. Army motor pool, and then led a jungle army of 10,000 guerrillas against the Japanese, Magsaysay soon...
...Magsaysay grew in the job; so did his abhorrence at the corruption bred by the Quirino regime: so did his ambition. Filipinos began talking of Magsaysay as presidential material, and Magsaysay liked the sound of it. It was soon no secret that Ramon Magsaysay was America's boy. For a time, U.S. Colonel Edward Lansdale of the U.S. Air Force took a desk in Magsaysay's Defense Office, became virtually his mentor and publicity man. Polished, precise William Lacey. Councillor of the U.S. Embassy, became the man to whom Magsaysay turned daily for counsel...