Word: peruvian
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...Chilean Senate's vote was interpreted as a polite rebuff to Secretary Kellogg, who has been attempting to mediate as to Tacna-Arica between the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors at Washington. The only other incident of note was President Coolidge's polite but firm refusal of a request by President Siles of Bolivia that that nation be admitted to the diplomatic wrangle over Tacna-Arica which has proceeded since 1883, the U. S. having been called in as mediator during the Harding Administration...
...Manhattan, the American League of Professional Women held a music forum luncheon last week. Two guests of honor were given the same topic: "What shall we do about jazz?" They were Dr. John Roach Straton, fundamentalist Baptist, and Marguerite d'Alvarez, Peruvian contralto. Dr. Straton rose first, bit off his words, said loudly, severely...
...Peru, on the windswept Paracas peninsula, Dr. William M. McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco...
...Chile and Peru over the province of Tacna-Arica (TIME, Feb. 1 et ante), a dispute in which the U.S. became involved when President Harding acceded to the disputants' request that he act as arbiter, U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg submitted a concrete compromise plan to the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors last week at Washington...
Later the new Chairman called upon the Chilean and Peruvian delegates between whom he is to preside. The Peruvians toasted him aboard the Peruvian gunboat, Rimac. The Chileans feted him on shore. For the time being felicitations took the place of strife and even halted the work of the Plebiscite Law Committee...