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...Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without...
Cuba. President Gerardo Machado y Morales signed a Sanitary Convention negotiated on Nov. 14, 1924, by Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Para guay, Peru, Salvador, Santo Do mingo, the U. S., Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Insofar as the Monroe Doctrine refers to Brazil, the Argentine, Chile and Peru, Canada would probably stand aside. It is the future of the West Indies that concerns her. If it should ever happen that any of the islands now owned by other European nations should become salable, the Canadian might find his own interest leading him to urge Britain to purchase it, and he might be unwilling to admit that the Monroe Doctrine should be invoked to prevent the acquisition...
...Admiral Sir Frederick C. Doveton Sturdee, 66, in command of the victorious British fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in November, 1914, where he sank the German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig, Nürnberg which had previously defeated a British squadron at Coronel, off the coast of Chile; in Camberley, Surrey, England, of inflammation of the brain...
...same for miles around: no rain here for 10 years, here for 34 years, here since Pizarro, here ever. The left shoulder of the South American continent is accustomed to wearing a heavy, blistering coat of sunburn. From lower Ecuador, through the length of Peru to mid-Chile, it is known as the "Dry Coast...