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...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...
...same evening the Associated Press carried this ominous despatch: "Boston, Nov. 19--A federal grand jury today indicted Manuel D. Craveiro of Seekonk on three charges of liquor law violations. The charges stemmed from the operation of an illegal still in Seekonk last August...
...brought up abroad. I thank God my children are being brought up in the U.S. MANUEL G. GARCIA Bronxville...
...second was Admiral Manuel Carlos Meireles, who, though a right-winger, nevertheless spoke out in opposition to Dictator Antonio Salazar's one-man rule, demanded restoration of civil liberties, and end to graft. After assuring anti-Salazar factions that he would not quit the good fight, he withdrew his candidacy three days before election Sunday, and out went Meireles...
...carpentry shop at Manila's Camp Murphy, operated by reformed Huks. This month, making mess tables for the Philippine army, the shop netted a profit of $582. Said Foreman Manuel Caiyot, a onetime Huk leader known as Ahmad the Killer: "I didn't believe it, but here we are, doing business with the army and getting cash instead of bullets...