Word: ecuador
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...statuary which a sculptor had traded to the Indians of Ayacachi in 1586 for a few pieces of lumber, was credited with miraculous powers. She could cure fistulas and the pox and prevent disasters as well. Last week the Virgin of Quinche figured in the greatest railway disaster in Ecuador's history...
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra proclaimed a national day of mourning. Neighboring countries rushed plasma and medicines. Railway men doubted that even Quinche's famed Virgin could prevent railway disasters until Ecuador could buy new rolling stock and spare parts from...
Increased representation of Pan-American nations, which have been sending more and more students each year during the past decade, is also strongly reflected in these figures. Evidencing hemispheric solidarity, 137 Latin-Americans, representing every nation except Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Ecuador, are listed on University files...
...round. Sidney Wood's erratic virtuosity survived four rounds. The semifinals drew the biggest crowd (8,000) in three years, and they cheered as madly as a mannerly tennis crowd could for Elwood Cooke's brave but hopeless stand against methodical Frankie Parker. In the other semifinals, Ecuador s pigeon-toed Pancho Segura learned once again that his two-fisted drives and self-satisfied "Bravos" were no match for Bill Talbert's power strokes. Talbert won easily at the cost of a twisted knee...
...From 1830 to 1930 Ecuador had 13 constitutions and 30-odd rulers, most of whom had to be removed from office by force. Reader Páez, Ecuador's President from 1935 to 1937, suspended the Constitution and ruled by decree for more than a year, suppressed several uprisings by supporters of Dr. Velasco Ibarra, and, in 1938, took refuge in the Chilean legation when his Government ordered his arrest on charges of misusing public funds...