Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet suite of rooms on the ground floor of the Reserve Bank of Peru at Lima, Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton's world-famed fiscal expert, has worked calmly through the last three major Peruvian revolutions, all successful (TIME, March 9, 16). Last week slight, grey-haired, bespectacled Dr. Kemmerer emerged with a finished report on the Peruvian sol, told Peru's latest Government that they had better stabilize it on a gold basis at its present value 28?. Within a few hours the Government issued the necessary decree...
This same relay mark was lowered three times this year before the meet with the Big Green swimmers. Wood lowered the 100-yard mark twice and the 50-yard one three times before finally establishing the present times. After Captain W.S. de Lima '31 had lowered the mark in the 440-yard free-style three times during the year Wood also shattered this record. In the intercollegiate meet in the Columbia pool last Saturday he won the race in 5:04 after having been first among the qualifiers on Friday with a time of 5:03 1-4. The best...
...once he was on dry land at Callao, port of Lima, valiant Lieut.-Colonel Jimenez marched straight to the capital, overthrew the Government, conferred by wire with leaders of the revolutionary Government at Arequipa in the South...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...
Head of the new government, a stop-gap affair patched up in Lima until Arequipa could be heard from, was, last week, Chief Justice Ricardo Leoncio Elias of Peru's Supreme Court. So devoid of ambition is Col. Sanchez Cerro that less than a month ago he announced that "by unanimous solicitation of the people" he would be the only candidate at Peru's next presidential election...