Word: peso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vote buying and intimidation were back. Garcia assured his nomination by a flood of political bounty; Garcia buttons were handed out with 10-peso bills tucked inside (TIME, Aug. 12). In the campaign, the Nacionalistas have spent in quantities unmatched since the Liberals threw around more than $1,000,000 in public funds in 1953 (and lost). To counter the Nacionalistas' largesse, the Liberals' Presidential Candidate José Yulo has used an estimated $2,500,000 of his personal sugar fortune. Throughout the countryside, well-armed election workers were busily canvassing voters for campaign funds, with their guns...
...Peso Sandwich. Chief outsider is Manuel P. Manahan, 41, an independent who has dedicated himself to carrying on Magsaysay's programs. He has made the most of a physical resemblance to his hero (he has even had his campaign pictures touched up to enhance the likeness), has had an amazingly warm reception in the barrios, which he has tramped indefatigably shaking hands and making friends with backwoods voters in the Magsaysay pattern. But without a machine of his own, he is conceded only an outsider's chance of upsetting the major candidates...
...delegates were set upon immediately by bevies of bosomy beauties wearing "Garcia for President" sashes over their décolletage. "Ah," said one red-eyed delegate, "I see the day shift has taken over." Garcia opponents complained that the Garcia buttons pinned on delegates' lapels often had 10-peso bills under the button. The free sandwiches, similarly equipped, came to be known as "peso sandwiches...
...contrast his party and Carlos Garcia's, since the Liberal Party is still trying to live down its reputation for corruption during the Quirino administration. Yulo gave one sedate, nonalcoholic tea to receive the delegates, 95% already pledged to him. There were no bosomy Yulo boosters and no peso sandwiches, but a fair number of Liberals obediently checked their firearms at the door...
...microphone, he held out the mike to a stranger, who said, "You are a stupid bastard." "No sir," replied Paco, "it is you who are the bastard," and handed the mike back to the stranger. The pair traded obscenities for five minutes. That one cost Paco a 1,000-peso fine...