Word: panay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heir. Manuel Roxas was born on New Year's Day, 1892, in the house of his well-to-do grandfather in Capiz, on the Visayan island of Panay. His father had been killed six months before by the Spanish. At eleven, Manuel Roxas was sent to school in Hong Kong. But his dislike of Chinese food brought him back in a year to the schools of Capiz, then being set up under the American system...
...eleven U.S. missionaries were getting ready for Christmas when the Japs found them. For two years, in a hideaway called "Hopevale," high in the beautiful hills of Panay Island, they had hidden successfully with about 100 other Americans and Filipinos...
There are few anecdotes about circumspect Bill Leahy. But there is one story which, although apocryphal, is characteristic. When the Japs sank the gunboat Panay in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, so the story goes, summoned the Admiral and asked: "Bill, what will it take to lick Japan...
Last week, when U.S. troops swarmed on to Panay (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Tomás Confesor was gone. He was in Manila, where President Sergio Osmena had appointed him Secretary of Interior in the new Cabinet (see cut). He was also the Mayor of Manila...
Flight to Panay. The son of a farmer-schoolteacher in Iloilo, Confesor came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through three years at the University of California. Later he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he majored in municipal government and economics. He was in Manila, as chief of the National Cooperatives Association and also gover nor of Iloilo, when the Japs arrived, got away to Panay in a small sailboat. When he struck out for the hills, he took with him his wife and three children...