Word: quirino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third contender was José Avelino, former head of Quirino's own Liberal Party. He was kicked out as Senate president last year when, it was charged among other things, he made $22,500 selling government-owned beer...
...latest count this week Quirino was clearly in, with nearly 1,125,000 votes. Laurel was second, with about 930,000, and Avelino a limping last with nearly 237,000. It seemed certain that Quirino's party had gained clear-cut control of both houses of the Philippine Congress...
Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast...
...Quirino's chief opponent was rabble-rousing, Yale-educated José P. Laurel, the islands' puppet President under the Japanese. "If collaboration means helping your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would...
Unofficial returns gave Quirino 176,860 votes, Alurel 92,073 and Jose Avelino, a third party candidate...