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...leaving Lima's socialite Miraflores Church after service last week, President Luis Sanchez Cerro of Peru drew his pistol and pointed it at one Jose Melgar, for the good reason that this tall, pale youth had just fired a bullet into the President's chest...
...hellion. He wore lace-trimmed drawers, lived almost exclusively on beef, rode like a centaur and decimated the population of his country. He once slit the throats of 1,500 prisoners of war, was defeated and forced to flee the country in 1852 by a former lieutenant, Justo Jose de Urquiza, head of an army of hard riding gauchos...
Into the Presidency of Argentina last week stepped big. solemn General Augustin Justo and out stepped his friend, small, whimsical General Jose Francisco Uriburu, remarking candidly: "The regime which I headed as Provisional President was illegal and it was unconstitutional, but it was based upon Justice and Right...
Good artists who ask nominal fees can command as good tours as ever. Baritone John Charles Thomas sings for $1,500 but his 92 engagements will make him a big earner this year along with Pianist Jose Iturbi who is giving 68 concerts at an even more reasonable figure. Violinists Albert Spalding and Efrem Zimbalist have profitably kept their fees down. So have Pianists Harold Bauer and Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Soprano Florence Austral, Contralto Sigrid Onegin...
...country," said the Brazilian delegate Senor Jose Carlos de Maceno modestly, "has never fought a single war of aggression...