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...Senate Committee investigating foreign loans heard that Juan Leguia, fat son of ousted President Leguia of Peru. was paid a $415,000 commission by J. & W. Seligman & Co. for helping promote $100,000,000 worth of bond issues to his country. (All of Peru's bonds are now in default.) According to the testimony young Leguia "lived at the rate of at least $250,000 or $300,000 a year for several years...
...Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
What rioting occurred last week was but a haba in the sopa to what took place when President Sanchez Cerro, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, overturned the eleven-year dictatorship of Augusto Bernardino Leguia in August 1930. After that he served as provisional president until the same soldiers and sailors with whom he had effected the coup forced him into exile after six months. Last October the military Junta permitted a national election. Luis Sanchez Cerro won by a majority of 19,745 votes...
...away from the Palace to hiss the retiring Junta, cheer their new executive, and in the absence of hostile Aprista Representatives, President Sanchez Cerro told his Congress what he hoped to accomplish in his five-year term-if he lasts that long. With a dig at imprisoned onetime President Leguia. he cried: "Our national faith has been committed to treaties which diminished our territory Our treasury has been exhausted and is suffering from the weight of a tremendous indebtedness contracted under the hardest terms. The safety of the State has been endangered by the development of dangerous political, economic...
...former Governor Alfred Alexander Taylor, 83, of Tennessee, in Johnson City, possibly of pneumonia; Sophie former Queen of Greece, sister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Frankfurt-am-Main, following an operation; James Lewis Kraft, chairman of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Co., in Chicago, following an operation; former President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru, in Lima, of pneumonia; Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, in Sarasota, Fla., of exhaustion after 43 speaking engagements in 48 days; General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing, 71, in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, of a severe cold...