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...Lima the Peruvian Government of often-wounded President Luis Sanchez Cerro did not exactly help matters by issuing an enormous map. This showed that their political opponents, the ousted regime of former Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguia, ceded to other countries 278,887 square miles of Peruvian territory by perfectly legal treaties...
...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...
...Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...
...highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
Almost any morning even highest officials of the Fascist Party and the Italian Government may read in the papers that Il Duce thinks they should "return to the ranks." Each man named then obediently writes in longhand some such letter as was penned little over a year ago by Augusto Turati, then Secretary-General of the Fascist Party (TIME...