Word: osmena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national political temper portended a roisterous day of 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...
...this unrest was not without its good side. The "Huks" were violent, crude and openly headed for Communism, but the uneasiness their strong talk generated had dissolved the atmosphere of lethargic resignation in which Manuel Quezon had performed his hypnotic political legerdemain. In Washington last week aging President Sergio Osmena asked the U.S. to hold a Philippine election before April...
...Whether Osmena was returned to power or was succeeded by energetic, popular Manuel Roxas, president of the Philippine Senate, the political situation would be brought to some kind of head before independence became a fact...
...shape U.S. policy was gradually taking on the anvil of events. In Congress, a bill was introduced to give Puerto Rico-which has long demanded independence-the choice of three alternatives: independence, statehood or a new wrinkle, dominion status. And at a White House conference with Philippine President Sergio Osmena, an interested conferee was Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, who has repeatedly said the U.S. must keep some of the Pacific bases which its Navy...
Good Brunswick Stew. He felt better. Utter weariness had kept him close to the cottage ever since he had arrived in Warm Springs, a little less than two weeks ago. He had seen few people. A week before, he had received President Sergio Osmena of the Philippines, and had told Osmena that he hoped the Commonwealth might soon achieve its independence. He had looked drawn beneath his tan then...