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...balloting. On Luzon, cub planes buzzed in the skies, looking for suspicious gatherings. Jeeps loaded with soldiers patrolled the rutted roads. Elderly, cautious President Sergio Osmena remained secluded in Manila's sprawling white Malacafian Palace. An armed guard surrounded the hideout of the opposing candidate-flamboyant, fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuna...
...Manila last week a Filipino could clip a perfecto on whose gaudy band was a picture of President Sergio Osmeña, and light it from a match pack carrying the picture of fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuña. Over Manila streets and provincial roads, campaign banners fluttered from bamboo arches. Poster-covered jeeps careened through the towns. The first contested presidential election in Philippine history was at hand (April...
...campaign was rough; the issues were confused. President Sergio Osmeña was the candidate of the "conservative wing" of the Nacionalista Party. But Osmeña's strongest blocs of support were far from conservative. Manuel Roxas (rhymes with slow boss) wore the label of the Nacionalista's "liberal wing." But Filipino liberal elements-the National Peasant Unionists and the restless, Communist-tinged Hukbalahaps-bitterly hate...
Against this seasoned politicking, Manuel Roxas was staking his reputation as a young, determined public servant (he was the prewar Secretary of Finance). Last week he got a big boost when Mrs. Aurora Quezon, widow of the late President, gave him her support...
Vincente Gonzalez Pardo, grandson of Peru's onetime president Manuel Pardo, and ex-Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat, $6,050; an ermine hat, $110; three nightgowns, $240; two beaded bags, $302.50. Grand total...