Word: leguia
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...rescued from a sentence of execution arising out of his unquenchable revolutionary activities by a popular demonstration without its like in the history of Peru. His official "coronation" at Lima as "Poet of America" followed amid a general public festival. President Leguia, "the bantam Mussolini of Peru" (TIME, Dec. 7), bestowed upon him a golden laurel crown. With unique audacity he suggested that "the crown would be improved by the addition of a sufficient number of emeralds to give it a leafy green appearance." A subscription was raised. The emeralds were added...
...usually in protest to some of the letters from readers, rather than to the paper. I did, once, protest against an unjust portrayal of the President of this country evidently written by a person on the staff who had never "been here and much less known Mr. Leguia...
...Peru, President Agusto Leguia expressed himself to Washington as pleased with the award; both Houses of the Peruvian Congress passed favorable resolutions toward it, promised the President their support in fulfilling the terms of the decision. As Peru is generally held to have lost forever the two Provinces of Tacna and Arica by virtue of the fact that a plebiscite is sure to go against her, the official attitude of the President and Congress was possibly nothing more than diplomacy; for the fact remained that, according to newspaper reports, the Peruvians were hotly incensed at the award, and were about...
...revolt was allegedly designed to embarrass President Leguia; but the President is not easily embarrassed. Soldiers put down the uprising ruthlessly, killed 130 of the insurgents, captured many. Execution of the ringleaders followed...
...long been alleged that the political security of Senor Leguia depends upon the number of North American financial mice that he can 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...