Word: moncado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filipinos love such political jugglery. Though the election was a foregone conclusion, several minority candidates campaigned just for the fun of it. The best show was put on by gaudy, athletic Hilario Camino Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...
...Moncado startled Filipinos by advocating "dominion status for the Philippines under the United States." Quezon and Osmeña stuck to their Nationalist platform, which calls for outright independence for the Philippines in 1946. But Manuel Quezon, whose passion for secession has been minified lately under the shadow of Japanese aggression, admitted to his people that independence now is in the hands of no one man or country, but in the lap of the gods...
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