Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...
When Mrs. Miles Poindexter, wife of the onetime (1923-28) U. S. Ambassador to Peru, returned to Washington from Lima she brought with her one Cornelius, capable Peruvian servant. She was pleased with Cornelius, but Cornelius was not pleased with his salary. Consulting Alfredo Gonzalez-Prada. Charge d'Affaires and First Counselor of the Peruvian Embassy, he learned that in the U. S. no servants are "indentured," that all can do as they please. He also learned that Senor Gonzalez-Prada wanted a servant. Thereupon Cornelius left the Poindexter household, went to the Prada household. Vexed, used...
...operating. The more important is Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, a German-owned concern which carries passengers over the rough Bolivia plateau. The other is Faucett Aviation Co., headed by Elmer J. Faucett of the U. S., who has settled in Peru. U. S. businessmen who are forced to enter the Peruvian interior hire Faucett taxi-planes. He portages them over mountains three miles high...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...
...only sad thing about the affair is the lukewarm attitude of the press in giving it inner page columns and cuts. Ostensibly for educational purpose, its national importance deserves a better fate at the hands of the Fourth Estate. The practical value of having things thrashed out from the Peruvian, Swedish or Roumanian point of view by their respective North Dakotan, Ohioan and Minnesotan representatives is inestimable...