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...Williams College and founded the Williamstown Institute of Politics. Dr. Dodds has found as much to do outside Princeton as in. From 1920 until 1928 he was secretary of the National Municipal League, editing its Review until this year. He was a technical adviser to General Pershing on the Tacna-Arica commission and electoral adviser to the Nicaraguan Government. He has been called "the best known North American in Central and South America." though Princeton's Dr. Edwin Walter Kemmerer, currency adviser to 13 nations, might well dispute this title. Nicaraguans remember how, to prevent repeating, Dr. Dodds caused...
President Coolidge (after the briefest pause): You know where Tacna-Arica is, Mr. Moore, and I want you to go there...
Since the Hoover cannonade, epochal changes have come upon Peru. In the purses of her citizens are no more libras (Peruvian "pounds") but shiny new soles (Peruvian "suns"*). For the first time in two generations Peru is on friendly terms with Chile, due to the Tacna-Arica accord (TIME, May 27, 1929) negotiated under President Hoover by the late U.S. Ambassador Alexander Pollock Moore whom President Coolidge sent to Peru...
President Coolidge: Mr. Moore, I want you to go down and straighten out this Tacna-Arica trouble...
Moore: But Mr. President, I know nothing about it! I don't even know where it is-where is Tacna-Arica...