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...President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson held conferences on whether or not to extend diplomatic recognition to Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro who had just turned Dictator-President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru out of office (see p. 22). The question was ticklish. The accepted U. S. doctrine formulated in 1923 by Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State, was to recognize only those Latin American governments which come into power by constitutional means. A complication in the Peruvian situation was the fact that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces...
...many a year a bust of kinetic little Dictator President Augusto Bernardino Leguia has stood in Lima's Governmental Palace bearing the clarion inscription NO FIRMO! ("I Will Not Sign!") This is a reference to the oft-told tale of how, on an occasion since commemorated as Character Day, he refused to sign his own abdication when threatened with death (TIME, Sept 1). The memorial still stood last week, when a hasty paintbrush edited the inscription to YA HA FIRMADO! ("Now he has signed...
Twenty-two years ago little Augusto B. Leguia was President of Peru. He was President last week, and for only seven of the intervening years had he been out of office. During his first term abrupt persons kidnaped the kinetic little man, who has been called the "Bantam Roosevelt of Peru," tried to force him to sign a written resignation at pistol's point...
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...
...Augusto R. Leguia, President of Peru, learning that Rosa Vega, young Lima maidservant, had borne triplet boys, sent her a present of money, assured her his government would provide their education...