Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peru's famed "Bantam Roosevelt," ousted President Augusto B. Leguia, got his start by selling U. S. life insurance, became Dictator of Peru for eleven consecutive years and has languished for the past 14 months deathly sick in a noisome Lima jail...
Prospects for the coming season are about the same as last year, it was stated by Ulen and Assistant Coach Robert Muir. The loss of W. S. De Lima, last year's captain, will be keenly felt, especially as little first-class material is expected from the 1934 Freshman team. With the exception of DeLima, on the other hand, last year's team is virtually intact and will provide a strong nucleus under the leadership of Captain B. S. Wood '33, of Honolulu. Wood was awarded a major "H" last year as a result of his winning the 440-yard...
...form of barter to help reduce its surplus. Into the Brazilian Embassy on 18th Street marched George Milnor, who as general manager of Grain Stabilization Corp. is official custodian for some 200,000,000 bu. of U. S. wheat. There he was greeted by suave, dark Ambassador Rinaldo de Lima e Silva. After exchanging amenities, they sat down together at a table, squiggled their names to a document. When they got up and shook hands, the U. S. had contracted to trade Brazil 25,000,000 bu. of wheat for 1,050,000 bags of Sao Paulo coffee...
...Peru, where Dictator Augusto B. Leguia was last year deposed (TIME. Sept. 8) a leading Lima paper La Prensa commented last week: "General Gomez makes 'Presidents' and maintains them in office until he is bored by the joke. . . . Joking aside, the tyranny in Venezuela has such a grotesque aspect that we must congratulate ourselves that even in the worst of the Leguia regime we did not have anything like...
...Gallitos (the cockerels)-George R. ("Tuck") Johnson, 30, Robert Shippe, 20, and their three young companions-are amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...