Word: legue
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...political picture today, moreover, compares favorably with the picture only 20 years ago, when Machado ruled in Cuba, Gómez in Venezuela, Ibáñez in Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...
Once employed by New York Life Insurance Co., courageous little Señor Augusto B. Leguía ("The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru") is now in his fourth term as President. Last week he gave the entire membership of the Chamber of Deputies a surprise party at his imposing Presidential Palace...
What fiery little Leguía wanted of them the Deputies did not know. It appeared, as he began to speak, that he wished to tell them about a 17-year-old boy, one Humberto Peña Olivera...
...This young boy" cried President Leguía, "with promises of money and glory they dazzled him! They gave him a revolver, and three times he carried it, to shoot me-but three times his courage failed...
...matter of fact several are known sympathizers of Judge Manuel Jesús Urbina of the Iquitos Judicial Court who was under arrest last week charged with instigating the 17-year-old pistol carrier, his servant. Therefore the cheers of all the Deputies, their cries of "Viva Leguía! Live, live 10,000 years!" were especially loud...