Word: sanchez
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more revolt against bullet-scarred President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru was put down by Federal troops at Huaras last week. The President closed both the National College and the National University as "hotbeds of revolutions," appealed for voluntary contributions to purchase three squadrons of bombing planes useful in putting down further revolts...
According to tough little President Luiz Sanchez Cerro of Peru whose body has been scarred by bullets of several would-be assassins (TIME, March 14), "The revolt was suppressed and several thousand loyal troops are carrying out their orders to surround and capture the insurgents." To finance the suppression $50,000 was appropriated by Peru's Congress...
Time & again Peru's Congress has hinted to the President that, since he was not killed, he ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
...even to Sanchez Cerro, enough is enough. Last week he commuted the death sentence to imprisonment for 25 years...
Just now President Sanchez Cerro's government is attempting to line up South American states in a defensive tariff union against the U. S. Strongly urging this policy, the daily El Comercio declared last week: "We must watch closely the coming British Empire conference at Ottawa. . . . We must again look to England and Europe for markets for our products. . . . The United States should never again speak to us about 'Pan-Americanism,' as that word from now on is without soul and without force. We have seen what happened in Nicaragua and Haiti...