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...home state of the Brown Derby's bitterest enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mr. McAdoo had instituted the Walsh campaign just for old time's sake, in memory of two McAdoo nominations blocked by Candidate Smith in 1920 and 1924. Candidate Reed perhaps served as a slight buffer between the two, but the returns were: Smith, 132,006; Reed, 57,586; Walsh...
...accord now reached represents a compromise obviously unsatisfactory to the Persians, who sought to raise the trade limit to 35,000,000 rubles. The threat^ of the railway is primarily inspired by British influence, which aims at strengthening Persia as a buffer state between India and Russia...
...Buffer supper will be served at the Harvard Club of Boston at 6.30 o'clock. At 7.30 Professor C. T. Copeland will read in the Library of the club...
...should have been held in 1894, according to the Treaty of Ancon in 1884; but after decades of wrangling, Chile and Peru voluntarily admitted the hopelessness of trying to hold it themselves and referred the matter to the President of the U.S. Chile desires Tacna-Arica as a strategic "buffer province" to protect her valuable nitrate fields from Peru. Peru has been incensed by the alleged "Chileanization" of Tacna-Arica by Chile in an attempt to "fix" the plebiscite...
...died unbeaten pugilist. Such a buffer as Donnelly Ireland never again will...