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Before he became Princeton's president. Dr. Dodds was forever making trips to Latin-American capitals. His first big job was straightening out Nicaragua's messy election system in 1922. In 1925 he was technical adviser to General Pershing on the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. The Princeton Survey of the New Jersey State government was conducted by Dr. Dodds with 20 assistants...
...considerably. If the December elections come off as scheduled and with a minimum of violence and disturbance, Cuba will rapidly forge ahead and regain her former peace and prosperity. Her friendship and cooperation will be a vital and immeasurable aid to the United States in formulating and maintaining our Latin-American policy during the years to come...
...advance the standards and ideals of the profession," the Association has ever since been strenuously denying that it is a "professors' union," that its prime purpose is to champion victims of academic injustice. Its committees range from A to Z, busy themselves with such subjects as "Cooperation with Latin-American Universities," "Pensions and Insurance," "University Ethics," "Depression and Recovery in Higher Education." But its Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure, significantly designated Committee A, almost alone makes News. Committee A does not pull its punches. Its reports are models of courageous investigation and forthright speaking. If the entire profession should...
...venerable Borah has introduced a resolution into the Senate demanding an exhaustive senatorial investigation of the persecution of religion in Mexico, it appears that America has again committed a diplomatic blunder by not observing whose toes are being awkwardly tread upon. This characteristic American attitude of interference in Latin-American affairs, many foreign observers agree, is another step in the direction of making us the most cordially hated nation on earth...
...field that has been far too little covered by our northerly inclined historians Professor Haring, long famous for his course in Latin-American history, has now presented in printed form a much needed resume of the complicated story of South American development from 1800 to the present time. Here, within the space of 240 pages, the writer has outlined the difficult century and a quarter of transition from Spanish rule toward political independence...