Word: peruvian
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...most active partner, to coach Acting Secretary Morgenthau, himself no banker, on large scale bond flotations. Had Senator Couzens been pressed to explain why he wanted Earle Bailie fired, he would have pointed to the Senate's foreign bond investigation which two years ago found some defaulted Peruvian bonds sponsored by J. & W. Seligman, and a $415,000 "commission" paid by the firm to the son of Peru's late President Leguia...
...grimy little port on the Upper Amazon, named by a romantic engineer for a Miss Leticia Smith (who married someone else), Leticia was ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922. Its population remained predominantly Peruvian...
...Peruvian troops which seized Leticia must withdraw immediately...
...seaports venereal disease. Country people exhibit comparatively little venereal disease. On the other hand, mainly because they go barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar to a small area of the Peruvian highlands. Latin Americans are specially susceptible to cataracts, a situation which partially explains the eminence of eye doctors in the Pan-American Medical Association...
...country supposed to have been injured. Brazil, the big neutral adjacent to Leticia, sent a commission to investigate the only victory that seemed authentic: Colombia's capture from Peru of the town of Tarapaca, 100 mi. north of Leticia. Boasting of this victory, Colombians claimed that "80 Peruvian soldiers fled from Tarapaca into the jungle where they are starving. Every few days a famished Peruvian comes out of the jungle and begs permission to surrender...