Word: luiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
According to tough little President Luiz Sanchez Cerro of Peru whose body has been scarred by bullets of several would-be assassins (TIME, March 14), "The revolt was suppressed and several thousand loyal troops are carrying out their orders to surround and capture the insurgents." To finance the suppression $50,000 was appropriated by Peru's Congress...
President Washington Luiz Pereira de Sousa. Last week hope loomed. A $100,000,000 loan to support Brazil's coffee hoard in Sao Paulo (principal coffee state) was announced to be in process of negotiation by J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London and their potent Manhattan correspondent Speyer...