Word: hernando
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama, on the Caribbean side. Culebra Hill, upon which the Roosevelt statue will stand silent overlooking...
...court was moved to anguish; it was announced that President Hernando Siles would be asked for a pardon...
Despatches indicated that the Government of President Hernando Siles was proceeding to quell the disorders by rushing picked troops to oppose the scantily armed Incas...
...successor, President Dr. Hernando Siles, took office 18 months...
President Hernando Siles named two seconds. They called on the seconds of Dr. Calvo. Over thick cigars and thin-stemmed glasses there was talk. Then the four seconds, shrewd, announced that Dr. Calvo had turned his back on President Siles by accident, that there had been no insult, would be no fight...