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...Carmen Nicholson Gispert had known all along that her husband Francis Gispert was risking his life by helping Father Walter B. Hogan to break the labor monopoly of Manila's waterfont held by the racketeering Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipino, (TIME, March 12). After Gispert was shot dead on March i, Mrs. Gispert aided police in tracking down her husband's killer, a 34-year-old waterfront tough named Arturo de los Santos y Esteban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Hot Ears | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

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