Word: peru
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There appears on p. 23 of your April 9 issue of TIME magazine an article under the heading of Foreign News which sets out an interview with one Juan Leguia. As a Peruvian and as the son of Eugenio Larrabure, former vice president of Peru, serving during Augusto B. Leguia's first term, I want to take most emphatic exception to the slanderous and malicious statements which your article attributes to this person...
...police station at Warsaw was the third that John ("Killer") Dillinger, wanted for five murders and innumerable bank robberies, was supposed to have raided since he broke jail at Crown Point, Ind. March 3. Police in Peru and Auburn said he had stolen guns from them, too. Police in Chicago said they had been fired on by Dillinger at night in Schiller Park the week after he escaped. In a St. Paul apartment house two Federal detectives had let two gunmen and a woman slip through their fingers under a machinegun barrage. They claimed that Dillinger...
Juan Leguia's white-mustached little old father Augusto had been President of Peru for eleven consecutive years. His family, pure Spanish, had lived in Peru since the days of the viceroys. All their loyalties, according to Juan Leguia, were for the family. Peru existed for the benefit of the Leguias and its people were dogs, to be ruled kindly but forcibly as a gentleman would govern any other kennel. Juan Leguia was prepared for his inheritance in the chaste corridors of St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass. The family's greatest pride is the fact that...
...people of Peru, weary of the Leguias, rose up under a red-eyed little wildcat of a man named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
...father owned half of Peru when he came into his estate, and he married a woman who owned the other half. We had an income in good years of $5,000,000 to $6,000,000. As for myself . . . when I walked on the streets of Lima or Callao in the old days I would not let anyone else walk on them at the same time. . . . Of course it made many enemies, but I showed them their place, and they respected...