Word: callao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Methodist Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions announced at New York that Dictator-President Leguía has taken it upon himself to appoint a U. S. Methodist Episcopal medical missionary, Dr. Eugene A. MacCornack, as Alcalde (Mayor) of the ancient Peruvian city of Callao, seaport to Lima. Straightway it was recalled that Dr. MacCornack has long been superintendent of the British-American Hospital at Lima, Peruvian capital, and that he has frequently had occasion to attend professionally both the indomitable Señor Leguía and numerous members of his militant Administration...
...catch in his trap. The Guaranty cat having frightened all the mice away, Senor Leguia roared, ranted and raved, then wrote to .Mr. Hughes in Washington. He was particularly angry that the Guaranty Trust had warned a certain New Orleans company against undertaking the development of the port of Callao.* He had when "elected"† promised his people lots of money and lots of economic entertainment, but the wicked New York bank having acquired an option on loan flotations for Peru, had thwarted him at every turn in a most unfair manner. The U. S. Secretary of State...
...charges that the Guaranty Trust warned a "big New Orleans corporation" against undertaking extensive developments of the port of Callao. Washington officials report that a concession for these works had previously been granted to a French concern...
...India, Sinapore, Australia and back north to Honolulu for Whitsuntide. After this the squadron will steam to Esquimalt, Vancouver and then south to San Francisco for Independence Day. This over, the Hood and Resolute will return via the Panama Canal to Plymouth, but the light cruisers will go to Callao, Peru, there to take place in the centenary celebration of the Peruvian Independence Day,* after which they will follow their big sisters home through the Panama Canal...