Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more remarkable: Zacharias had pointed out to the Admiral that there were then two Jap envoys in Washington, Nomura and Kurusu. "When the third one arrives," he said, "you can look for it to break immediately." The third Japanese diplomat, Tatsuyi Sakamoto, Ambassador to Peru, arrived in Washington...
...World. North and South America's record-breaking 14 cardinals were dotted on the map with the same sense of worldwide polity. Cuba, Chile and Peru got their first cardinals, while Brazil and Argentina were upped to two apiece. Most notable Latin choice: tall, taciturn, efficient Bishop Antonio Caggiano of Rosario, builder of Argentina's Catholic Action movement, who has often shown hatred of Fascism and antiSemitism...
...Coolidge era, any government that got in trouble with its currency was likely to call on precise little Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer. Known as the "money doctor," he practiced from China to Peru. By 1934 he had treated 13 patients on five continents, not all of whom recovered. Kemmerer's basic prescription: get on the gold standard. Wrote one enthusiastic Chilean editor: "We receive him with palms and olive branches, just as the city of Jerusalem received the Redeemer." Said another: "Dr. Kemmerer is the wisest financier in the world and dances the shimmy on Saturday night...
...months since Apra had voted for Poet-President Jose Luis Bustamante and compromised its way to power, Peru's new-dealing Government had revamped its school system and hiked teacher pay by almost 80%, voted "victory bonuses" (employer-paid) to all workers. It had also embarked on the enterprise dearest to Haya's pro-Indian heart, irrigation that would restore to Indians the Andean waters their Inca ancestors had led through now-ruined aqueducts and tunnels. "The reactionaries irrigated the country in blood," Haya told them. "We will irrigate it with water...
...longer so apprehensive. This week, as President Bustamante studied the bill submitted by Congress, the streets were Apra's. The Party's show of strength had given the lie to the anti-Apra pasquin pundit who had said: "They [Apra] could have been the masters of Peru. They had the girl in the automobile and the lights were out. And then the girl left them. For the crux of the matter is not to have the instrument but to know...