Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December of the same year he was promoted to a similar post in Chili. This office he filled most acceptably until August, 1897. On retiring from the legation he was retained to go to Brazil on legal business for a New York life insurance company, and was also appointed arbitrator between the governments of France and Chili on the claim of Charles Frerant, a French citizen, against Chili. He returned to the United States in March last...
Latin salutatorian, Frederick William Loetscher, of Dubuque, lowa; English salutatorian, Albert Howe Lybyer, of Brazil, Ind.; valedictorian, Edward Strong Worcester, of Burlington, Vt.; the other commencement orators are William Arnot Mather, of New York city, John James Moment of Orono, Ontario, and John Moore Trout, of Bridgeton, Delaware...
...England tried to check this flow of silver by reducing the value of the guinea to meet the demands of foreign markets. But it was too late; twenty years of the outgo of silver had taken away her power to exercise this check. The discovery of the mines of Brazil still further reduced the value of gold in relation to silver, and facilitated the progress of England toward a predominant gold-circulation. In 1816 an act was passed making gold the sole legal tender for large payments...
...present tariff is especially bad. - (a) It will injure our commerce with Brazil and Cuba. - (b) It has caused retaliation on our beef by Germany: Harper's Weekly, Nov. 10, 1894. - (c) It is a patchwork disowned by its framers. - (1) Harper's Weekly, Sept. 1; Nation, Aug. 2, Oct. 11, 1894; National Democratic Platform, 1892. - (2) Pres. Cleveland's letter to Representative Catchings in Public Opinion, Sept. 6, 1894. - (d) It favors a monopoly: Nation...
Plinio da Silva Prado, Sao Paulo, Brazil...