Word: quirino
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...Quirino withdrew and threw his support to Romulo...
...Magsaysay withdrew and threw his support to Quirino...
...Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will be a clear-cut fight between Magsaysay and the man he once served as Defense Secretary, President Elpidio Quirino...
...have been attacked as too young for office. Quirino didn't ask my age when he asked me to clean up Huks . . . They have attacked me because I was once a mechanic and truck driver. That's not an insult to me but an insult to 19 million humble Filipinos...
...limousine headed back towards Manila, with a guard pointing a cocked carbine through the window into the rainy night, Magsaysay nervously cracked his knuckles, and predicted that he would get 60% of the votes if the election were free. He accused Quirino of hoping to stay in office by fraud and intimidation. If the election is stolen, said Magsaysay, "the Philippines will become a banana republic at the mercy of the Communists...