Word: peru
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PERU...
...quiet suite of rooms on the ground floor of the Reserve Bank of Peru at Lima, Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, Princeton's world-famed fiscal expert, has worked calmly through the last three major Peruvian revolutions, all successful (TIME, March 9, 16). Last week slight, grey-haired, bespectacled Dr. Kemmerer emerged with a finished report on the Peruvian sol, told Peru's latest Government that they had better stabilize it on a gold basis at its present value 28?. Within a few hours the Government issued the necessary decree...
Only two months and three governments ago, Peru tried to stabilize her sol at 40?. So impregnable is Dr. Kemmerer's prestige that he can ignore the popular roar of rage: "Kemmerer has sold...
...last month by Mrs. Dorothy Linn McCormick (TIME, Feb. 16); and Mrs. Florence Sittenham Davey, 38, Manhattan sculptress, pupil of Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, onetime wife of former Instructor Randall Davey of the Chicago Art Institute (Mr. McCormick is its vice president), sister-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Peru Fred Morris Dearing; in Havana...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...