Word: manuel
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...back to school, and soon a Pampanga philanthropist relieved him of all worry by offering to finance his education at the University of Santo Tomas. Graduating in 1936, Macapagal scored the highest grades of all candidates in the bar exams and was soon a legal assistant to Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During the war, Macapagal quit as law professor at Santo Tomas to serve as an intelligence agent with the anti-Japanese underground...
Trained in conservatism and orthodoxy at the pre-Laski (1915-18) London School of Economics. Beltran came home to put the modern miracles of science to work on the family hacienda and to criticize governments from the pages of his daily La Prensa. His criticism of ex-Dictator Manuel Odria landed him in jail; his criticism of Odria's successor, President Manuel Prado, gave Prado an idea-he asked Beltran to help run the country...
...part-Chinese ancestry, Osmeña began his campaign for Philippine independence after the suppression of the 1899 insurrection against U.S. rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died in 1944. returned home over the beaches of Leyte and directed the reconstruction of his nation, only to lose the 1946 presidential election to Manuel Roxas ten weeks before independence finally came...
Only two of the independent candidates for the Council, Daniel J. Hayes and Manuel Rogers, appear at this time to be contenders. Rogers ran unsuccessfully in the last election, while Hayes, outspokenly anti-Harvard, has already created a stir by claiming that many students will try to vote illegally in the city election...
Ever the perfect patrician, Peru's President Manuel Prado, 72, descended the planeside steps at Washington's MATS terminal one day last week with the sure and jaunty gait of a boulevardier revisiting a familiar haunt. He gripped President Kennedy's hand, bowed with gallant grace to kiss the gloved hand of Madame la Présidente, Jacqueline. So taken was Jackie that she nearly forgot to present the roses she was carrying to Prado's elegant and equally aristocratic wife, Clorinda. Prado, whose innate courtliness has carried him through ten such state visits around...