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...Thus in 1929 when Columbia University made him a Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) he was shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as "giving a foothold to imperialism." No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed...
...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...
Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...
...Cambridge, B. P. Millar, Warsaw, N. Y., I. Miller, Cincinnati, Ohio, L. G. Mitchell, Harrington, Me., J. N. Murphy, Milton, R. H. Nagles, Brighton, D. Newton, Westboro, D. L. Oliver, Atlanta, Ga., W. C. Panuzio, Cambridge, J. G. Patterson, Evanston, Ill., R. M. Pearson, Jr., Somerville, E. H. Perkins, Bantam, Conn., C. F. Peterson, Cambridge, A. S. Pier, Jr., Concord, N. B., E. C. R. Pollock, Toronto, Canada, R. Porter, Quincy, J. Prescott, Fall River, D. R. Procopio, Brockton, R. J. Purcell, Pleasantville, N. Y., W. J. Pyles, Rio de Janetro, Brazil, A. B. Read, Jr., Washington...
...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...