Word: larco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, First Vice President of Peru, visited Washington and the White House last week. Probably he discussed his favorite and biggest idea, a sweeping federation of all Western Hemisphere countries, including Canada. He believes that the Federation should supersede the Pan American Union, which he considers "outdated and fossilized...
Vice President Larco Herrera is a famous and hilarious character in Peruvian politics. His appearance has been compared to that of a brunette turkey in a high stiff collar. A stickler for rigid protocol, he has sometimes been forced to maintain a multiple personality. During a period of political stress he was simultaneously Minister of Foreign Relations and Minister of Finance. Peruvians say he would write a formal note: "Rafael Larco Herrera, Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru, presents his respects to Mr. Minister of Finance, for the outstanding work he is performing." Next day would come the equally formal...
Owner of a big hacienda called "Chiclin," and once owner of La Crénica, the Vice President once kept three desks in his enormous office. His countrymen report that a caller might be addressed as follows: "Have you, Sir, come to see His Excellency, Rafael Larco Herrera, Vice President of Peru? Or have you come to see Señior Larco Herrera, Owner and Publisher of La Crénica? Or perhaps you have come to see Don Rafael Larco Herrera, Director and General Manager of Hacienda Chiclin." According to the answer, he would sit down...
...Excellency is a voluble and charming conversationalist, a good friend of the U.S. In Washington he was travelling "incognito, as a private citizen." (He complained that he could not buy new shoes; he had no coupon.) But when he saw President Roosevelt, Rafael Larco Herrera presumably stepped into one of his gaudier personalities...