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Republic Act No. 1400

Also: Land Reform Act of 1955, RA 1400 — the statutory abbreviation, The Land Reform Act — the period shorthand

Republic Act No. 1400, the Land Reform Act of 1955, is the statute "An Act Defining a Land Tenure Policy, Providing for an Instrumentality to…

Also: EO 230 — the standard citation form, "Organizing the Department of National Defense" — the order's title, The 1939 defense-organization order — descriptive shorthand distinguishing it from the 1987 order of the same number

Executive Order No. 230 is the executive issuance of the Commonwealth of the Philippines dated October 31, 1939, titled "Organizing the Department of National Defense,"…

Cipriano Cid

Also: The first president of the CLO — his fixed place in the liberation-era record, The founder of PAFLU — the descriptive designation carried in the party record, President of the Workers' and Peasants' Party — his office at the 1963 founding

Cipriano Cid was a Filipino labor leader — the first president of the Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO), the federation formed in 1945 by Hukbalahap…

Commonwealth Act No. 430

Also: CA 430 — the standard citation form, An Act to Create the Department of National Defense and the Department of Health and Public Welfare — the long title, The 1939 defense-department act — descriptive shorthand

Commonwealth Act No. 430 is the statute of the Commonwealth of the Philippines approved on May 31, 1939, carrying the long title "An Act to…

Mariano Cuenco

Also: Mariano Jesús Cuenco — the full styling, Mariano Jesús Cuenco y Diosomito — the maternal-surname form, M. J. Cuenco — the initials carried by the Cebu City thoroughfare named for him

Mariano Cuenco — in full Mariano Jesús Cuenco y Diosomito (January 16, 1888, Carmen, Cebu – February 25, 1964, Manila) — was a Filipino politician,…

Executive Order No. 464

Also: E.O. 464, EO 464 (s. 2005), Executive Order No. 464, series of 2005

Executive Order No. 464 (series of 2005) — in full, "Ensuring Observance of the Principle of Separation of Powers, Adherence to the Rule on Executive…

Benigno Ramos

Also: Benigno Ramos y Pantaleón — full name, The Sakdal leader — press shorthand of the 1930s, Supreme Commander of the Makapili — his self-declared 1944 title

Benigno Ramos — in full Benigno Ramos y Pantaleón (February 10, 1892 – disappeared 1945) — was a Filipino writer, labor agitator, and political organizer:…

José Alejandrino

Also: José Cándido Alejandrino y Magdangal — full name, General José Alejandrino, Jose Alejandrino — unaccented English styling

José Alejandrino — in full José Cándido Alejandrino y Magdangal (December 1, 1870 – June 1, 1951) — was a Filipino engineer, revolutionary general, and…

Benigno S. Aquino Sr.

Also: Benigno Aquino Sr., Benigno Aquino, Sr. — the comma styling of the reference works, Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao — full baptismal name

Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947), known as Benigno S. Aquino Sr., was a Filipino lawyer and Nacionalista politician…

Noli Me Tangere

Also: Noli Me Tángere (Spanish styling; often printed without the accent as Noli Me Tangere), Touch Me Not (English rendering of the title), The Social Cancer (title of Charles Derbyshire's 1912 complete English translation)

Noli Me Tangere ("Touch Me Not") is a novel by José Rizal, written in Spanish and printed at the Berliner Buchdruckerei-Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin in the…

Simón de Anda y Salazar

Also: Don Simón de Anda y Salazar — the honorific styling of the Spanish record, Lieutenant Governor of the Philippines — the Audiencia's wartime designation, Governor and Captain-General — the title he assumed on October 8, 1762 under the Council of the Indies' devolution rules

Simón de Anda y Salazar (October 28, 1709, Subijana, Basque Country, Spain — October 30, 1776, Hospital de San Felipe, Cavite) was a Spanish colonial…

Electoral Commission

Also: The Electoral Commission of the 1935 Constitution — the styling that fixes the charter and era, The Assembly's Electoral Commission — the contest forum of the unicameral National Assembly, Not to be confused with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) — the independent commission the 1940 amendments created in its place and which still administers Philippine elections

The Electoral Commission was the constitutional organ created by Article VI, Section 4 of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines — the body to which…

National Rice and Corn Corporation

Also: NARIC — the abbreviation used in the Supreme Court's own recital of the corporation's history, The defunct NARIC — Republic Act No. 663's own designation of the dissolved corporation whose assets it reclaimed, The rice and corn corporation of the National Development Company — the founding-era styling

The National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC) was the Philippine state trading corporation for the two staple grains — the body through which the Commonwealth…

Protected Area Management Board

Also: PAMB, The Board — Section 11's own shorthand ("The Board shall, by a majority vote..."), The policy-making body of the protected area — the designation the Mt. Kanla-on Natural Park Act gives its board

A Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) is the multi-stakeholder governing body that the National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 1992 (Republic Act No. 7586)…

David v. Macapagal-Arroyo

Also: The PP 1017 cases — the collective name for the seven consolidated petitions, G.R. Nos. 171396, 171409, 171483, 171485, 171400, 171424 & 171489 — the full docket, The Proclamation 1017 case — the issue-named styling

David v. Macapagal-Arroyo is the decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines En Banc of May 3, 2006 — seven consolidated petitions for certiorari…

Biodiversity Management Bureau

Also: BMB — the standard abbreviation, DENR-BMB — the departmental styling, Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) — the bureau's name at creation in 1987, still the name used in Republic Act No. 9147's text

The Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) is the staff bureau of the Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) responsible for the country's biological diversity…

Trade Union Congress of the Philippines

Also: TUCP — the universal short form, Katipunan ng Manggagawang Pilipino (KMP) — the native name carried in the center's own record, The TUCP Labor Center — the styling of its headquarters compound in Diliman, Quezon City

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP; native name Katipunan ng Manggagawang Pilipino) is the largest labor center in the Philippines — a confederation…

History of the Philippines (1946–1965)

Also: The early Third Republic — the survey's constitutional frame, The postwar Philippines (1946–1965) — the reconstruction-and-republic era, The Roxas-to-Macapagal presidencies — the period's five-administration span

The History of the Philippines (1946–1965) is the period survey covering the first two decades of the Third Republic of the Philippines — from the…

History of the Philippines (1935–1946)

Also: Commonwealth of the Philippines (1935–1946) period — the plain-form alias of the survey's first half, Commonwealth era, The prewar Commonwealth and the Japanese occupation — the period's two conventional subdivisions

The History of the Philippines (1935–1946) is the period survey covering the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the Japanese occupation — the eleven-year transition between…

Council of National Defense

Also: National Defense Council — the designation used by Executive Order No. 3 of 1935, The advisory council of the National Defense Act — its statutory description, CND — the abbreviation of the era's administrative record

The Council of National Defense is the advisory council on defense policy created by the Philippine Commonwealth's first statute — Sections 6 to 8 of…

MV Doña Marilyn

Also: Doña Marilyn — the styling of the vessel's name in Philippine reporting, Otohime Maru — her original name in Japanese service, 1966–1976, Doña Ana — her first Sulpicio Lines name, 1976–1978

The MV Doña Marilyn was a Philippine-registered passenger ferry operated by Sulpicio Lines — built in Japan in 1966 as the Otohime Maru for RKK…

Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas

Also: KAP — the standard abbreviation of the era's record, Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines — the English rendering carried in the federation's article, Katipunan ng mga Anakpawis sa Pilipinas — the unhyphenated styling used in the party record

The Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas (KAP; English "Proletarian Labor Congress of the Philippines") was a Philippine national labor federation — recorded as "the…

Santiago Artiaga

Also: Don Santiago Artiaga — the styling of the UST engineering deans' table, City Engineer Artiaga — his designation in the Manila records, The first mayor of Davao City — the office that fixes him in the record

Santiago Artiaga (1878–1962) was a Filipino engineer and colonial-era official — "one of the first pensionados," the American-period state scholars — whose career ran from…

Congress of Labor Organizations

Also: CLO — the standard abbreviation in the era's record, The labor center of the Democratic Alliance — its descriptive role in the coalition, "Committee of Labor Organizations" — the variant styling the Democratic Alliance article uses for the coalition's labor component

The Congress of Labor Organizations (CLO) was the dominant labor federation of the Philippines in the period immediately after World War II — the trade-union…

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