Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three times, announced that contrary to current rumor the patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard placed over him, was a Lieutenant Alfonso Llosa just released from the same prison by the revolution after serving one year of an indefinite sentence imposed by Leguia...
...three Dictator Leguia is a bantam, pugnacious Colonel Cerro, five-foot-flat, is a molecule of a man, an explosive molecule. Brown as a berry, he has been fighting all his life. He is scarred with 16 gunshot wounds. In 1914 leading a revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received...
...doer, not a talker," he snapped. "In the words of the great Lord Nelson Peru expects 'every man to do his duty...
...hand, a delegation of Callao dockworkers called on Colonel Cerro at his new official residence, the 16th Century Palace of that superb ruffian Pizzarro, conqueror of Peru...
...Editor. Waldo David Frank celebrated his forty-first birthday Aug. 25 by making more plans for presenting South American literature to the U. S. in small doses. Ten or more books of which this is the first, are to appear and bring the best from Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others, culled by him, edited by him. Since leaving Yale in 1911 with B.A., M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa key, he has applied his erratic literary ability to many matters. With the publication of Virgin Spain in 1926 his name as a Spanish authority was made, his interest in things Spanish...