Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...
...five places and lost three fingers of his 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...
...Canal Zone, Traveler Siegfried was much impressed by the mechanics of the Gatun locks. "The silence is positively religious, giving an impression of safety, strength, and calm. It does honor to the Americans, and classes them with the Romans among the great builders of history." In Lima he found the people as climate-loyal as Californians; though in winter there is usually a misty drizzle, no one carries an umbrella. "You will even be treated as a Chilean-supreme insult! -if you carry one." In Peru "there is no public opinion, no consideration whatever of the general good." Siegfried...
Tropical Diseases: Quito, Dr. Sergio Lasso Meneses; Lima, Drs. Edmundo Escomel, Carlos Enrique Paz Soldan; Bogota, Dr. Daniel Brigard; Caracas, Dr. R. Gonzalez Rincones; Rio de. Janeiro, Dr. Carlos Chagas; Mexico City, Dr. Gaston Melo; San Jose (Costa Rica), Dr. Solon Nunez; Havana, Dr. W. Hoffmann...
Children: Buenos Aires, Dr. Gregorio Araoz Alfaro; Montevideo, Dr. Luis Morquio; Lima, Dr. Orestes Botto; Mexico City, Drs. Antonio Sordo Noriega, Mario Torroella; Havana, Dr. Angel Arturo Aballi...