Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least one original contribution to human knowledge. This grows harder (or sillier) every year. Students thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...
Last week Harold Foard returned to Peru alone with a letter. Two weeks after they left their Indian porters, the explorers' collapsible boat smashed up in some rapids. Overboard went duffle bags & data. The two men were alone in a steaming, fever-soaked jungle where only the birds and the tops of the writhing vines saw the sun. Thomas Walsh died in his friend's arms and was buried in a narrow trench scooped out of the rotten ground. Harold Foard was picked up by Indians and carried on to Monzon, Peru. The letter he carried said...
...votes almost any punctured public man will try to get his assailant off. Last week in Lima the court-martial sat from 8 a. m. until 4 a. m.-then sentenced to death both Puncturer Melgar and his accomplice, Juan Seoane, 32, whose brother Manuel is the Leader of Peru's Aprista (Opposition) Party. The sentences of death, imposed just as dawn was breaking, were ordered carried out by a firing squad at high noon the same day. Wearily the officer-judges clunked and clanked home...
Into action went Peru's Congress. It passed a bill specifically empowering the President "to commute death sentences imposed on would-be murderers to penal servitude." This was certainly a broad hint. Lest it vex the punctured President, whose military rank last week was that of Lieutenant Colonel, the Congress passed another bill promoting him retroactively to the rank of Colonel, this appointment to date from...
...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...