Word: leoncio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple friendliness of the Roosevelt greeting made sense to President Prado. Peru's executive is no stuffed shirt. His father was twice President of Peru; a brother, the late Leoncio, is a national hero. Manuel Prado was a scientist, an industrial manager, a banker. But his rise had been a hard grind. His first political experience, as superintendent of a polling station in the elections of 1912, was a beating by a hostile mob. While an undergraduate at Peru's University of San Marcos, he enlisted in the Army as a private, saw front-line service during...