Word: quezon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become captain of the rifle and pistol squad as well as cadet battalion commander in the ROTC. He also got his first taste of political activism. Ferdie took to the soapbox to comment acidly on everything from the curriculum to the policies of the Philippines' first President, Manuel Quezon...
...Educator Holland has gone far, so has Pediatrician del Mundo. She has done research in bacteriology as well as pediatrics, and written extensively on both. She has set up the 100-bed Children's Memorial Hospital in Quezon City (a Manila suburb), with an institute of maternal and child health recently added, and has gone deep into debt to pay the running costs. Dr. del Mundo accepts donations and whatever fees patients can pay, but no govern ment money. Now she has a new volunteer fund raiser - Albert Holland...
Macapagal fights against this reality by personal example. Gone are the lavish presidential entertainments of the Garcia era, including the weekly poker game at which the boss handed out political favors to his cronies. While ex-President Garcia relaxes in obscure luxury at his Quezon City mansion, his successor has thrown open the presidential palace, with its private zoo, to the public; the state dining room has been largely unused. Macapagal has published a complete financial statement of what he owns (total assets: $34,485), has issued an unprecedented decree that neither his own nor his wife's relatives...
...school, and soon a Pampanga philanthropist relieved him of all worry by offering to finance his education at the University of Santo Tomas. Graduating in 1936, Macapagal scored the highest grades of all candidates in the bar exams and was soon a legal assistant to Philippine President Manuel Quezon. During the war, Macapagal quit as law professor at Santo Tomas to serve as an intelligence agent with the anti-Japanese underground...
...part-Chinese ancestry, Osmeña began his campaign for Philippine independence after the suppression of the 1899 insurrection against U.S. rule, rose from speaker of the first Philippine Assembly to vice president of the Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency of the Philippine government-in-exile when fiery Manuel Quezon died in 1944. returned home over the beaches of Leyte and directed the reconstruction of his nation, only to lose the 1946 presidential election to Manuel Roxas ten weeks before independence finally came...