Word: magsaysays
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...haranguing voices, but the nation's No. 1 grassroots campaigner, the man who had most at stake in last week's off-presidential-year election, made only two major speeches. "I want to see if the people will fight my battle for me," said President Ramon Magsaysay...
Claro Recto was regarded as one of the most powerful men in the Senate, until he tangled with Magsaysay and Magsaysay's policy of friendly cooperation with the U.S. Recto was once a big power in Magsaysay's own Nacionalista Party, but this year he was specifically eliminated from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila...
...election day Claro Recto got his answer. Magsaysay's ticket swept all before it. Senator Recto finished in sixth place, and though he thus was returned to the Senate, he was clearly repudiated as an effective opponent to Magsaysay...
Heading the senatorial list with 2,500,000 votes, more than ever polled before by a senatorial candidate, was a comely, 38-year-old widow named Pacita Madrigal Warns, who quit her ballet school to head the Women for Magsaysay Movement two years ago. When Magsaysay appointed her to his Cabinet as Commissioner of Social Welfare, she converted her election workers into a volunteer social-workers corps. The daughter of Multimillionaire Vicente Madrigal, onetime Liberal Senator, she campaigned widely with the slogan "For the poor, vote Pacita for Senator...
...week's end a tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced...