Word: callao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father owned half of Peru when he came into his estate, and he married a woman who owned the other half. We had an income in good years of $5,000,000 to $6,000,000. As for myself . . . when I walked on the streets of Lima or Callao in the old days I would not let anyone else walk on them at the same time. . . . Of course it made many enemies, but I showed them their place, and they respected...
Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
Surgery: Buenos Aires, Dr. Jose Arce; Callao, Dr. E. A. McCornack; Panama, Dr. Augusto Samuel Boyd; Mexico City, Drs. Ulises Valdes, Abelardo Monges Lopez, Jose Torres Torija; Havana, Drs. Ricardo Nunez Portuondo, Ernesto R. de Aragon...
Early one morning last week at Callao a woman tried to keep her husband from leaving home with a stick of dynamite in his pocket. During their scuffle the dynamite went off, blew up both of them. . . . Ten were killed, 13 wounded at Paijan in street fighting. . . . Strikes broke out on the sugar plantations around Trujillo. . . . On the outskirts of Lima, police arrested 30 men breaking into a private shooting club, not to practice but to steal weapons. . . . All this was considered as natural an adjunct as the gold braid and oratory with which seven-fingered President Luis M. Sanchez...
...once he was on dry land at Callao, port of Lima, valiant Lieut.-Colonel Jimenez marched straight to the capital, overthrew the Government, conferred by wire with leaders of the revolutionary Government at Arequipa in the South...