Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lounge of Manhattan's Phi Gamma Delta Club last week newshawks found a sleek-haired young man who was once the second most important man in Peru. Straining a whiskey-&-soda through his enormous teeth, Juan Leguia told a colorful story of three years' political imprisonment, and unwittingly revealed to his listeners why there are so many revolutions in Latin America...
Five minutes behind schedule, a trimotored Pan American-Grace plane roared down the field, bounced aloft last week in Lima, Peru, southbound for Santiago. Chile with nine passengers and a crew of three.* About 150 ft. up the port motor cut out. The centre motor sputtered. With flying speed almost gone, the pilot tried to turn back. The big airliner shuddered, dived into the ground. On board was Manuel Trucco, leathery Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., on his way from Washington to Santiago where his wife had died. Ambassador Trucco suffered a broken pelvis. His pretty daughter Grace...
...list of the countries represented by Harvard and the students acting as delegates was released by James A. Wolff '35 of the League yesterday. Harvard will take the part of the United States, Peru, and Panama in the assembly of the league...
Seymour M. Peyser '34, Philip H. Singer '34, Alvin M. Josephy '36, Herbert A. Fierst '35, Julian A. Wilhelm '35, and Thomas H. Quinn '36, will represent Peru; and Malcolm H. Hoffman '34, Henry Hemmendinger '35, George E. Edwards, Jr. 1G, David Mayer '36, Comstock Glaser '35, and Oscar H. Davis '34 will represent Panama at the convention...
While a League of Nations commission continued to sit on the Colombia-Peru dispute over Leticia, Colombian citizens last week elected a new President without any difficulty; Alfonso Lopez, Liberal leader and Leticia expert. His only opponent was a Communist Indian farmer named Estiquio Timote...