Word: nacionalistas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moises Padilla was an insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
Nine of the 24 seats in the Senate were at issue. Laurel's Nacionalistas, with the returns almost complete, appear to have won them all, giving them possible control of the Senate. In Quirino's capital of Manila, a Nacionalista became mayor by a 3-to-1 majority...
...hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor-a Liberal...