Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited in turn the nearby Indies, Venezuela, Brazil, passed over Paraguay to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru. Ecuador...
...last week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...
...Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...
...Callao, Peru...
...seminary run by Fathers of the Precious Blood, was ordained in 1908 and given a parish in Fort Wayne, Ind., still his home diocese. For a time Father Arnold had the odd task of acting as chaplain for Catholics in the Wallace Circus, in winter quarters at Peru. Ind. In 1913, he applied to the chaplain bishop of his church for an appointment as army chaplain. He was going to try it only for a year, but liked the life so well that he remained, made the round of army posts and rose steadily in rank. Even though...