Word: peru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiery President Leguía of Peru (see below) commented as follows on Señor Edwards' protest...
...Sitting at Arica, port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
Last week came tidings of that benevolent dictator, that bantam Mussolini, the diminutive yet lion-hearted President Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo of Peru, who "tips the scales at 98 pounds of dynamite and determination...
Without becoming lurid, it may be baldly stated that no less than nine major revolutions and at least a score of minor revolts have been put down during the ten odd years in which Señor Leguía has worn the presidential sash of Peru. The old semifeudal, politico-military aristocracy has resisted long and bitterly the dominance of Leguía, admittedly a champion of the middle class, of industrialism, and even of the aboriginal Indians of Peru, who have been exploited immemorially by the landed descendants of the Spanish conquerors...
...previous to his present engagement. During the war he was special adviser to the State Department on war problems. He became known to the Peruvian Government in 1915 when he was appointed the member from the United States on the permanent international commission provided for under the treaty with Peru in that year. In 1917 he was also appointed chief of the constitutional and international law division of the Judge Advocate's Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps...