Word: paz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week preparations were made to inaugurate Senor Villanueva and "Brother" Saavedra. The retiring President mobilized the army at La Paz, seat of government, for the inauguration ceremonies. At the last minute a hitch occurred. The Saavedras had expected Villanueva to appoint a Republican Cabinet; instead he announced his intention of appointing a fusion or coalition Cabinet. Thereupon President Saavedra decided the election in May had been fraudulent, and that Senor Villanueva was disqualified from holding office. A resolution was introduced into the Legislature to that effect. President Saavedra ordered the inauguration postponed and waited the decision of the Legislature...
...Honduran house has now been swept, dusted, tidied. A fortnight ago the National Assembly met and, without the discharge of a single gun or the drawing of knife, elected Senor Miguel Paz Barahona, President of Honduras; Senor Presentacion Quesada, Vice President...
...Manhattan, ten University of Michigan undergraduates strode up a Grace Line gangplank, bound for Lima, Lake Titicaca, Cuzco, La Paz, Iquique, Antofagasta. Bidden guests of most of the South American Republics, the ten were escorted by two members of their alma mater's Romance Language staff. They bore with them to South American universities the good-will of Marion L. Burton, Michigan's Coolidge-nominating President. In addition to conditions social, economic, political, religious, which it is their intent to scrutinize, the Michiganders may see a being who has long excited the curiosity of the American advertisement-reading...
Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine ape: " A despatch from Buenos Aires stated that I arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, ' in a sulky mood.' Met by a cheering crowd, I fled hastily in my automobile, refused to raise my hat. Later, when I failed to appear at an athletic meeting, the citizens interpreted this as another slight. They marched the streets crying: 'Death to Firpo...
...That on June 2 martial law was declared and part of the staff of El Diario, La Razon, La Verdad and El Liberal (opposition newspapers at La Paz) were imprisoned and the rest were given the choice of a two-days' trip on muleback into the interior of Bolivia or deportation by rail. The latter was the more popular choice...