Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictator, like a man with a bull by the tail, takes a chance every time he lets go. Last week Peru's Strong Man, bulky President General Oscar Raimundo Benavides, and some of his Ministers decided to leave Lima's Government Palace for a three-day holiday at Paracas Bay, 200 miles down the coast from Lima. Minister of Government and Interior General Antonio Rodríguez, left behind to keep a watchful eye on things at home, accompanied the President & party to the docks at Callao, port of Lima, and bade them Godspeed...
...Rodríguez scooted back to Lima, gathered a handful of followers, largely Government employes from his own ministry, and marched into the Government Palace. He summoned the Army officer in command of the palace machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns...
Ralph H. Cutler, Jr. '40, chairman said that the student campaigners have secured the support of Father O'Hara, president of Notre-Dama University and member of the American delegation at the recent Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru...
...student group announced that it hoped to establish in the future two scholarships each for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Columbia and to extend them to other countries if the former proved successful...
Shock From Lima, Peru, came a Decameronian tale: a stroke of lightning which ripped off all the clothes of a beautiful young woman in the streets of Calendin (pop.: 5,000), left her mute from shock. Shocked in his turn by the dazzling sight, a passer-by who had long been mute, recovered his powers of speech...