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Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
...Bantam Roosevelt of Peru" is a nickname sometimes applied to President Augusto B. Leguia, not in disparagement but as descriptive praise. Last fortnight the new U. S. Ambassador to Peru, famed Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime Ambassador to Spain (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), was received at Lima by President Leguia, who said, in the course of a dynamic address...
This, the Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...
Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru, "bantam Mussolini," addressed to President Calles an appeal: "I view with deep sorrow the religious conflict which is developing in Mexico, that beautiful twin country of Peru. ... I take the liberty of begging Your Excellency to incline your powerful will toward the re-establishment of harmony with the Church...
Plutarco Elias Calles, president of Mexico, replied to President Leguia: "I must take the message from Your Excellency as a purely personal expression, which can in no way signify the interference of a foreign power in a matter of exclusively domestic nature...