Word: quezon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign affairs, he is Manila's most distinguished and probably its most successful corporation lawyer. Now 64. he is pudgy, softspoken, incisively gentle in conversation but savage in political combat or in a courtroom. Recto was born in southern Luzon in the province of Taya-bas (now Quezon). His father, though he could not write, was a man of some importance in his village. Recto himself, educated by the Jesuits, stood at the head of his classes at Santo Tomas law school, learned to speak and write perfect Castilian (then the mark of a cultured gentleman...
...knew of him was that he and his followers had been accused of killing hundreds of innocent civilians, murdering the widow of the late Philippine President Manuel Quezon, burning bedridden patients in an army hospital. But barely three weeks after we went to work, Arsenio brought me the news: Taruc was willing...
...number of honors candidates increased decisively, and Manuel Quezon, then only leader of the Philippine Senate, asked for his country's independence at a Union debate. John Chase was awarded the Burr Scholarship, symbolic of athletic and scholastic leadership. The favored...
Surrender. In January 1951, a Philippine Army patrol in a brush with a Huk band found a blood-stained musette bag containing Pomeroy's passport and some papers in his handwriting. Last week, in rugged mountains near the border of Bulacan and Quezon Provinces, the Philippine 12th Battalion Combat team surprised a camp of 20 Huk guerrillas. Three of the Huks were killed, several of the guerrillas surrendered. Among the captured was William J. Pomeroy...
There was hardly a Filipino family that had not lost at least one member in the war. Three years of Japanese occupation had changed the moral climate of the country. It became necessary and patriotic to cheat, deceive, rob, even kill. The strongest Filipino leaders (e.g., Manuel Quezon) had died. But the U.S., and Filipino politicians, had gone too far to turn back on a promise. So the happy day of independence came...