Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Santiago, Chile, there was no celebration-naturally. But in Lima, Peru, fireworks popped, cheering citizens snake-danced. Regiments smartly parading with blaring bands were reviewed by small, snapping-eyed President Augusto B. Leguia, indomitable dictator, famed "Bantam Roosevelt."
By presidential decree the holiday was Peru's "Day of Joy." Just 46 years prior she had lost the so-called "War of the Pacific" (1879-83), and victorious Chile then seized Tacna-Arica as war spoil. Negotiations begun with President Harding as arbiter, carried virtually to conclusion under President...
Editor Older soon discovered that his newspaper was not on the pure list. It was receiving "pay" from railroads. It was receiving money from political parties for candidacy support. But this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight...
Soon their chance came. Patrick Calhoun desired to modernize United Railroads' ramshackle Sutter Street car line, and to do so he decided to construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit...
Historians, thumbing over old Gazette files, wonder how Editors Dixon and Hunter would have treated President Hoover's election. For this was their whole account of a potent colonial event: "The Hon. John Hancock, Esq., a Delegate [to the Continental Congress] from Boston, is appointed President of the Congress in...