Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since free-spending Carlos Garcia stepped into the man-sized shoes of Philippine National Hero Ramon Magsaysay, he has used the office of the presidency to entrench himself and his Nacionalista Party. But despite enormous expenditures, Garcia failed to poll as many votes in 1957 in retaining the presidency as did Liberal Party Leader Diosdado Macapagal, 48, an old friend of Magsaysay, in winning the vice-presidency. Miffed, Carlos Garcia barred Vice President Macapagal from Cabinet meetings and isolated him from the government...
...RAMON GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA...
...Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining deep pride in being a Filipino with unshakable affection...
...RAMON ROSAMILIA New York City...
...nationalism is nothing more than an attempt to cover up corruption and divert the voters' attention." So far Garcia's assaults on the U.S. have had no substantial visible effect on the affection in which the mass of Filipinos hold the U.S. -an affection so strong that Ramon Magsaysay used to proclaim: "Let who ever wants run as an anti-American. I'll run as an open pro-American and beat him easily." Recalling Magsaysay's max im, some of Manila's political pundits thought that Carlos Garcia was making the biggest mistake...