Word: tagalogs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...party involved was the Sakdal (a Tagalog dialect word roughly translatable as "I accuse") with a membership estimated between 10,000 and 200,000 on the main island of Luzon. Four years ago Benigno Ramos began organizing the Sak-dalistas after Manuel Quezon fired him from the job of clerk of the Philippine Senate. Ramos' platform was calculated to appeal to poor malcontents: abolition of poll and land taxes, better roads, more schools, shared wealth. Significance of the Sakdal party name was its bitter opposition to the "favoritism and corruption" of Boss Quezon's dominant Nationalist party. Evidently...
...Balintawac outside Manila assembled last week 2,000 excited Filipino peasants to hear fiery speeches in Tagalog flaying Nicholas Roosevelt, appointed last month, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. Ever since his appointment Philippine politicos have raised a great hubbub against him because, in 1926 while working for the New York Times, he wrote a book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book...