Word: ecuador
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...vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso Mendoza, under arrest? Above all, was not Ecuador the only country in all South America still on the gold standard, with a free market for foreign exchange...
President Baquerizo Moreno ground his teeth and issued a decree: Ecuador was off the gold standard. The president of the Banco Central immediately resigned in protest...
...Banos, Ecuador...
...Edwin Walter Kemmerer of Princeton, famed fiscal diagnostician, was named to represent Federal Reserve Bank of New York at a conference of South American central banks in Lima, Peru next month. Bolivia called the meeting to ponder the mutual fiscal problems of herself and Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador. The central banks of all five countries were established on the advice of Dr. Kemmerer so his attendance was expected, but it is unusual for the Reserve to go out of its official family for its chief representative. Accompanying Dr. Kemmerer will be Allan Sproul and Eric F. Lamb, both...
...systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills of the great nations of Europe, serving as the expert on currency and banking for the Dawes Committee. So sound and fruitful have been his labors that the name of Edwin Walte'r Kemmerer, Ph.D. stands topmost...