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...politicians' haranguing voices, but the nation's No. 1 grassroots campaigner, the man who had most at stake in last week's off-presidential-year election, made only two major speeches. "I want to see if the people will fight my battle for me," said President Ramon Magsaysay...
...many ways President Ramon Magsaysay's rise in politics resembles Dwight Eisenhower's. A smiling soldier with immense popularity, a simple, homey manner, a record of incorruptibility, and little knowledge of practical politics, he had the presidential nomination thrust upon him in 1953 by the Nacionalista Party in its eagerness to throw out the entrenched Liberals...
...years, no opposition critic has given popular President Ramon Magsaysay so much trouble as one outspoken member of his own Nacionalista Party. Wealthy old (65) Senator Claro Recto is an adroit corporation lawyer and the party's most vociferous voice in the Senate. Back in 1953, when the party badly needed a popular presidential candidate, Senator Recto had a major voice in the decision to reach into the Liberal Party and tap able young Ramon Magsaysay, then busy hunting down the Communist Huks as Defense Minister in the Quirino government. Ever since, Senator Recto has acted like...
This was more than Ramon Magsaysay could take. In a press conference the President last week declared flatly that he would oppose Senator Recto's renomination this fall, would campaign against him if the Nacionalista Party nominated him. "Recto is against America and, because I am a friend of America, he is against me," said Magsaysay...
Scripps-Howard staffers had gathered tape-recorded tributes from all over the world. Said Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay: "I think it is a tribute to the durability and staying power of the American press that it has been able to survive 50 years of Roy Howard." Chirped Madame Chiang Kaishek: "I am delighted to have this opportunity to make you listen to me for once...