Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jungle picture made so far, Trader Horn will stand, where censors do not gut it, high among the pictures of this or any year. It contains a great deal of savagery, with a love story for sweetening. Trader Horn (oldtime Wild West Cinemactor Harry Carey) and his friend Little Peru find a white native goddess (Edwina Booth), daughter of a deceased missionary. She saves them from being roasted upside down. They flee. Eventually Mr. Carey prudently wraps a blanket around naively nude Miss Booth, sends her on to civilization with Peru, then heads off again into the wilderness...
Ecuador. Panama and Peru from Spanish rule, founded and gave his name to Bolivia. He died penniless and in a borrowed nightshirt at San Pedro Alejandrino, Colombia, of tuberculosis, Dec. 17, 1830. Said he: "All we have gained is independence, and we have gained it at the cost of everything else. . . . Those who have toiled for liberty in South America have plowed in the sea." Phrasemakers delight in the comparison between Simon Bolivar and George Washington. Pedantic historians deplore it, point out that Bolivar was violently emotional, often extremely cruel; that while Washington constantly urged the U. S. to avoid...
...view of the recent revolutions in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, a course in the political history of the Latin American republics in the nine-teenth and twentieth centuries is especially important for an understanding of their background. While an intimate acquaintance with all of the periodical upheavals in some twenty states is not very interesting for the general student, the religious and agrarian policy of the Mexican government, the interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine, and commercial relations with South and Central America are of international interest, and have been appearing frequently in the press during the last few years...
...Wernette, Instructor and tutor in Economics at Harvard, has been appointed as one of a commission of five financial experts who will examine the financial affairs of Peru under the direction of Professor E. W. Kemmerer, of Princeton University...
According to Mr. Wernette the commission, which will sail from New York City on Friday, January 2, has been invited to Peru by the government which has been in power there since the revolution of last summer...