Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lima fiery little Provisional President Luis Sanchez Cerro thought the troops were on their way to crush the revolt at Arequipa (TIME, March 2), proud "Queen City of the South...
Gradually the hunch grew that revolting Arequipa was the horse to back. Presently Navy officers had a talk with Col. Sanchez Cerro, told him that only a single regiment in Lima remained loyal to his regime. He resigned, moved from the presidential palace into a hotel, loudly cheered by a handful of friends. "I only wanted to save my country," he explained. "I had no political ambition...
When 60 armed civilians and soldiers stormed the Presidential Palace in Lima it was only a short day's work for Col. Cerro's troops to scatter them with machine gun fire, chase them eight miles down to the Port of Callao (where T. R. H. were saluted fortnight ago) and end the No. 1 revolution there, after some 60 persons had been slain (one of them Reginald A. Skidmore of the Grace Line, killed by a stray bullet while playing billiards at the Strangers' Club...
Harder to cope with was the No. 2 revolution. It started at Arequipa in southern Peru, where the President got his own revolutionary start. While loyal troops moved against the rebels, airplanes rained down on Arequipa copies of Lima newspapers announcing that Arequipa was "alone in her revolt," would soon again be in the grasp of Seven-fingered Col. Cerro...
...Lima last week the Earl of Chester was seen to be scribbling on a piece of paper in his lap while the mayor wordily presented him with the Freedom of the City. Rising to give thanks and reading from the scrap of paper, H. R. H. pronounced 71 Spanish words, concluded amid cheers: "Cuando la emocion es grande, el discurso es corto." ("When the emotion is great the speech is short...