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...five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that Republic's independence; and to President Senior Augusto B. Leguia of Peru on the latter's 107th anniversary. ¶ In Manhattan, for Calvin Coolidge from Benito Mussolini arrived a heavy parchment-bound book, two feet square, entitled La Basilica di San Francesco d' Assisi, full of pictures of that famed church. At Cedar Island Lodge arrived four...
Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...
...Bantam Roosevelt of Peru" is a nickname sometimes applied to President Augusto B. Leguia, not in disparagement but as descriptive praise. Last fortnight the new U. S. Ambassador to Peru, famed Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime Ambassador to Spain (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925), was received at Lima by President Leguia, who said, in the course of a dynamic address...
...Signed) Augusto Calderon Sandino, "(Seal...
...Fletcher mines and were threatening to shoot him, "as an example to these Yankee Pirates." At Washington the Navy Department & Marine Corps could only bleat that for the past six weeks their scout planes have not been able to so much as ascertain the whereabouts of shrewd Guerilla Augusto Calderon Sandino...