Word: ramon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the bases it won from Japan (e.g., Okinawa), but in the Philippines it can point with pride to unprecedented colonial achievement. The Philippine Republic is unique not because it is well run and democratic (many British colonies are, too), but because its people, voting freely, elected President Ramon Magsaysay, a man whose platform is solidarity with the former "imperialist Yankee...
Almost a year passes in bitter deadlock. Other unions send food and money to keep the strikers going. The men do the women's work while the women stand duty-or the work goes undone. In the story of Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacon) and his wife Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas), the moral of the strike is lived out in sweat and painful growing...
...Ramon Betances and Jose de Diego were 19th century Puerto Rican patriots who demanded that Spain free their country. *One, Doris Torresola, is the sister of Terrorist Griselio Torresola, who was shot and killed behind a hedge near Blair House during the attempt to assassinate President Truman...
High in the Sierra Madre range of Luzon, one bright, moonlit night last week, a small man walked across the white sand of a dried river bed and held out his hand to a young Manila newsman, and to Manuel Manahan, chief of President Ramon Magsaysay's Complaints & Action Commission. After six years in the hills, Communist Luis Taruc, El Supremo of the Huk guerrillas, was keeping a rendezvous. In good English he said: "Let's get straight to the point...
...Ramon Magsaysay...