Word: peru
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emigdio, San Gennaro and Santa Barbara are the saints whose job it is to tame earthquakes. Perhaps they were caught napping. Or perhaps too few prayers had recently reached their ears. Last week in southern Peru a subterranean mutter grew into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands...
...last year. Here too the roll of TIME'S subscribers is a most distinguished one-including the presidents of six of our sister republics and a long list of important English-reading people from the Rio Grande to the Strait of Magellan. For example, the Consul General of Peru looked through the names of our subscribers in his country and was "very much impressed with the high representation in cultural and intellectual circles as well as the large amount of big business concerns and banking institutions" appearing there...
...Defense, was in exile in California. Once urged to declare himself dictator, he is now willing to be "drafted" as President if Ecuadorian politics will only settle down. The second son, Captain Leonidas Plaza, who earned a captain's commission in a bayonet charge during the war with Peru, was in Garcia Moreno penitentiary under 16 years' sentence for participation in an abortive revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement. The youngest son. Lieut. José Maria ("Pepe"), 32, banned from his homeland, risked his life in a Mexico City bull ring in a benefit appearance (gross gate...
...brothers he learned a deep love for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty. As provocative as his verónicas are his attempts to get Ecuador to become the first South American nation to declare war on the Axis. As fierce as a toro is his anger at the Peru-Ecuador border settlement, which the Brothers Plaza describe as an "American Munich...
...they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact with Peru...