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...visible Army support for a counterrevolution, although an attempt at one was possible. Other attempts might be inspired by ex-President David Toro, reportedly in Washington, or by deposed President Peñaranda, who issued a die-hard statement from Tacna, Peru...
...which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica dispute between Peru and Chile, in which Bolivia had hoped for a corridor, gave Bolivia nothing...
...giant candle, 18 maids of honor, a giant birthday cake borne by four chefs, and Oscar of the Waldorf. Franklin Roosevelt was much pleased, for the four balls which he attended by proxy were but samples of many others. They varied in size from the one held at Tacna, Ariz, (pop.: 7) to the one held in Philadelphia's Convention Hall attended by 15,000. They varied in expense from the 35? charged in Milwaukee to the $100 a plate charged at a dinner given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann...
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...
...Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still helps to keep Nicaraguans honest. He spent 1925 in Chile as technical adviser to General Pershing's Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. Hard-pressed Nicaraguans called him back twice in 1928 to help make his law work. After the election everyone shook hands all around-winners, losers and Expert Dodds. He has been called "the best-known North American in South America." Meantime there was work at home...