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What rioting occurred last week was but a haba in the sopa to what took place when President Sanchez Cerro, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto Bernardino Leguia in August 1930. After that he served as provisional president until the same soldiers and sailors with whom he had effected the coup forced him into exile after six months. Last October the military Junta permitted a national election. Luis Sanchez Cerro won by a majority of 19,745 votes...
...Cross pin; former Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, 83, of Tennessee, in Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...
...Peru's famed "Bantam Roosevelt," ousted President Augusto B. Leguia, got his start by selling U. S. life insurance, became Dictator of Peru for eleven consecutive years and has languished for the past 14 months deathly sick in a noisome Lima jail...
...Peru, where Dictator Augusto B. Leguia was last year deposed (TIME. Sept. 8) a leading Lima paper La Prensa commented last week: "General Gomez makes 'Presidents' and maintains them in office until he is bored by the joke. . . . Joking aside, the tyranny in Venezuela has such a grotesque aspect that we must congratulate ourselves that even in the worst of the Leguia regime we did not have anything like...
Plutarco Munoz announced that the Honduran rebels were backed by Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino, and "Communists," these from Havana...