Word: magsaysays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind PACD is Ramon P. Binamira, 33, who while still at niversity of the Southern Philippines law school organized 30,000 Filipino students into a poll-watching corps whose vigilance contributed notably to the 1953 clean election of the Philippines' late beloved President Ramon Magsaysay. Once in office, Magsaysay wanted to give Binamira a Cabinet post, but he decided instead to live a while among the barrio people, who constitute the submerged 70% of the Filipino population...
...Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could swing enough voters to his extreme views, became loudly anti-American...
Easier in the Afternoon. Reform did not come naturally to President Carlos Garcia. When he took over after the death of able, incorruptible Ramon Magsaysay in 1957, Garcia's regime became conspicuous chiefly for its influence peddling, nepotism and economic mismanagement. Last fall, after losing off-year senatorial elections in the cities even though his Nacionalistas bought a majority in the countryside, Garcia awoke to the fact that government corruption had been the major popular issue against him, shrewdly concluded that he had better change his party's ways before the 1961 presidential elections. "Nothing less than...
...party treasurer, whose strategic position made him an ideal political fund raiser among businessmen. He also fired Finance Secretary Jaime Hernandez, whose job included the granting of dollar import licenses. As new Finance Secretary he named energetic Economist Dominador Aytona, 41. budget commissioner under the late incorruptible President Ramon Magsaysay. Aytona has already turned up 50 million pesos ($25 million) worth of questionable transactions, and has proposed indicting 50 customs employees...