Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...
...Manuel Maria Ponce, a Leguia friend, was placed in command of the revolutionary Junta (military government). Ex-President Leguia and his son Juan fled to the cruiser Almirante Grau, begged to be taken to a neutral port. Other members of the numerous Leguia family scurried to the safety of Lima's foreign embassies...
...crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled in 1922, he filled in his spare time by serving in the Spanish Army in Morocco against the Riff. Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government. At the flying field, cheering followers tossed him to their shoulders, carried him three miles to the city gates, where, balanced precariously on the roof of a motor truck, he rode through the streets in triumph. At the gates of Government Palace he cut reporters...
Revolt spread quickly. Other garrisons and university students joined. But President Leguia, outwardly unperturbed, went as has been his Sunday custom for years to the St. Beatriz racetrack. Lima's chief of police skedaddled. The cabinet resigned. President Leguia's "appropriate steps" broke into a run. At a midnight conference he appointed a new cabinet of military friends. Colonel Gonzales of the civil guard broke into the room, declared that cabinet unsatisfactory to his insurgents...
...armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...