Word: agusto
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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President Agusto B. Leguia, Peru's malevolent despot, complained to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes that a bold, bad bunch of bankers, operating under the name of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan had been openly discouraging American loans to Peru...
...unpublished) stated that the Guaranty Trust Co. is a private institution over whose legitimate operations the U. S. Government has no control. He was also understood to have conveyed to Senor Leguia his belief that the Guaranty Trust has not been guilty of any unfair or unusual practices. Senor Agusto is said to be the handsomest president in Latin America. Numerous stories about his villainies are in circulation, some of which are untrue. He is, however, reputed to be the living incarnation of a mediaeval despot that rules his country by force and fear, being allegedly merciless to his enemies...