Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay over the steamy Gran Chaco region still unsettled after three years' armistice, another long-disputed area last week loomed as a second Chaco. For almost 400 years the peoples of Ecuador and Peru have been squabbling over the Oriente, a dank, roadless, city-less jungle, which lies east of the Pacific Andes, and sprawls between the two little nations. The territory, about the size of New York, is now divided by a temporary demarcation line, pending final settlement under U. S. direction...
...entire Cabinet of army officers, under Ecuador's military dictator, General G. Alberto Enriquez, resigned in a body to take their places in the army, were replaced last week with civilian ministers. All week mobs roamed the plazas of Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development and the Government heads would have to be completely mad to think of war," he said.* Nevertheless, observers allowed that...
...Service also printed and edited a film on tropical diseases taken in Peru by Richard P. Strong, Professor of tropical medicine, at the Medical School...
Oldest university in the Americas is not Harvard (founded 1636) but the University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. San Marcos was established in 1551. Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most...
...outpropose Pensioner Rankin. While Mr. Rankin languished with laryngitis, shrewd Mr. Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders Bankhead and Rayburn, whose orders from...