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Word: peru (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted the conference report on a bill appropriating $13,000 to send U. S. delegates to the sixth Pan-American Child Congress at Lima, Peru, next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...High School of Gary, Ind., second; Class C?Stanhope, Iowa, first; Partridge, Kan., second. Judges were Mr. Dasch, E. H. Wilcox of the University of Iowa, Carl Busch of Kansas City, Rudolph Ganz of Chicago, Will Earhart of Pittsburgh. They pricked their ears particularly at the playing of the Peru, Neb. orchestra which was conducted by a girl, Ruby Brown of Rockport, Mo. They found her band worthy of third place in the class C contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...prevent the disease, rodents must be exterminated and their fleas kept from humans through personal hygiene. Drs. Long and Eskey cleaned Guayaquil by drastically cleaning the city of vermin and teaching the inhabitants personal cleanliness. Their next chore, upon which they are already started: to derat, deflea, deplague Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bubonic Plague | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Once employed by New York Life Insurance Co., courageous little Señor Augusto B. Leguía ("The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru") is now in his fourth term as President. Last week he gave the entire membership of the Chamber of Deputies a surprise party at his imposing Presidential Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: I... Eternal.... | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...Government is that which re-established America's respect for Peru. No assassin's bullet can destroy my work. It is eternal. Should I die, the assassin's own hand will inscribe my name in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: I... Eternal.... | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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