Word: leguia
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...wanted Earle Bailie fired, he would have pointed to the Senate's foreign bond investigation which two years ago found some defaulted Peruvian bonds sponsored by J. & W. Seligman, and a $415,000 "commission" paid by the firm to the son of Peru's late President Leguia...
...left hand when he seized the spitting muzzle of a machine gun in his bare hands and turned it on the Government forces in overthrowing President Billinghurst in 1914. In 1921 they shot him full of holes again when he captured Lima in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow President Leguia. In semi-exile abroad he served with the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco, was wounded; served with the Italian army in 1925, took advanced military studies in France in 1926. In 1930 came one more revolution and he swept into office, a popular hero, promptly acted like all the Dictators...
...Lima the Peruvian Government of often-wounded President Luis Sanchez Cerro did not exactly help matters by issuing an enormous map. This showed that their political opponents, the ousted regime of former Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia, ceded to other countries 278,887 square miles of Peruvian territory by perfectly legal treaties...
...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...
Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...