Word: osmena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since war's end fierce Hukbalahap gangs have tried, with the same guerrilla tactics they used against the Japs, to enforce ex-President Osmena's decree dividing crops 60-40 in favor of the peasant. But new President Manuel Roxas refused to com promise with revolt. He sent in 5,000 military police, who soon had the "Huks" under control...
...early hours of election day brought nervous rumors: of masked bands hijacking voting boxes in Santa Rosa; of ink poured over ballots in Cavite. And there were some bloody facts: Governor Ramon Imperial of Camarines Sur Province was wounded by gunfire; a 62-year-old Pampanga supporter of Osmena was hauled from a jeep and murdered by machine-gun fire in a rice field...
Greatest Champion. From the first, the vote swung toward 54-year-old Manuel Roxas*, who had campaigned vigorously while Sergio Osmena stood on his record and kept...
After six days, tired, careworn Sergio Osmena conceded defeat. In self-assured tones, Manuel Roxas outlined his program to U.S. newsmen. He said that he would seek an immediate U.S. loan for rehabilitation, promised full cooperation with U.S. policy in the Far East...
...When the trend pointed to Roxas, the Philippine Press, a Manila tabloid, printed a boldface column recalling that Jose Vera, Osmena's campaign manager, had threatened suicide if his candidate lost. The paper called on Vera to make good, suggested poison, a hand grenade, or a banzai charge on Roxas headquarters. Weaseled Vera: "I said 'I'll bet my life Osmena will win!' I never said I would commit suicide...