Manuel L. Quezon

To quit or not to quit after election defeat

May 14, 2013 | Opinion

Raymundo Melliza

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY By Alex P. Vidal Missing in the pages of our history books was the political exploits of former Supreme Court justice Raymundo Melliza of Iloilo who ran and lost for vice president of the Philippines to Sergio Osmena of Cebu in the 1935 presidential elections. Melliza’s (was Read More …

Philippines: A Jewish refuge from the Holocaust

April 25, 2013 | Opinion

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Telltale Signs By Rodel Rodis The 1993 Best Picture movie, Schindler’s List, informed the world about Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler and how he saved 1,100 Polish Jews during WWII by hiring them as workers in his factory. A new documentary, Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge From the Holocaust, being shown this month in hundreds of PBS stations throughout the US, will now inform the world Read More …

Political butterflies

June 18, 2012 | Opinion

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AS A MATTER OF FACT By Sara Soliven De Guzman The Philippine Star The coming 2013 midterm election is already bringing in early noise from our politicos. Right now we are very conscious of those “balimbings” as we see them jumping from one party to another. This is clearly showing us that they do not go by a strong political party stand or platform. Good Read More …

Quezon: dead or alive?

August 22, 2010 | Opinion

Looking Back by Ambeth Ocampo from Philippine Daily Inquirer MANUEL LUIS Quezon is the face on the P20 bill. He is best remembered as the President of the Philippine Commonwealth and is also referred to as the “Father of the National Language.” The former capital of the Philippines, Quezon City, bears his name. He passed away on Aug. 1, 1944 in Camp McMartin, Saranac Lake, Read More …