Word: quezon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old independent weekly newsmagazine Philippines Free Press declared last week that "there is more grafting and thieving in our government today than there ever was in previous administrations, from that of Manuel Quezon to Ramon Magsaysay. Compared to the callous and venal officials we have nowadays, those that infested the [1948-53 Quirino administration] were clumsy amateurs...
...Yulo says the law was really written by Major Eisenhower, that he took Ike's draft paragraphs, cut them out and pasted them into the proper order to constitute the proposed law (a defense measure), and sent it off to President Manuel Quezon, who rammed it through Congress without a change. Yulo, who used to play golf with Ike at Canlubang Country Club, quotes Major Eisenhower as exclaiming in wonder: "This is legislation by shears...
...Quezon City, Philippines...
...room." "Roy," the President reminisced, "do you realize it has been 20 years since we were on that boat?" (i.e., the President Coolidge, when Ike, a major, was en route to the Philippines to become MacArthur's chief of staff and Howard to cover the inauguration of President Quezon). Said Howard: "A lot of things have happened since then." Retorted Ike: "Boy, are you telling...
...string of other crimes including arson, murder, kidnaping and robbery. The defense asked the court to drop seven of the 30 counts against him on the ground that a 1948 presidential amnesty absolved these crimes. The prosecution agreed, even though the seventh count-involving the ambush murder of Aurora Quezon, widow of the onetime President-was committed a full year after the amnesty had been granted. Thereupon Taruc's three lawyers waived formal reading of the complaint and Taruc pleaded: "Guilty, Your Honor...