Word: augustino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last leaving Nicaragua for home. The long planked pier at the Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines...
...Augustino Sandino, Nicaraguan bandit and alleged cold-blooded murderer, found himself in much the same boat as the Daughters of the American Revolution yesterday, when President Hoover refused both of them his calling card. The refusal of the President to address the D. A. R. Congress this year, interpreted by the Press as being significant of something a little more than mere social "ennui", brings out into sharp relief the ostrich-like perversity with which that organization has in the past supported every unenlightened policy that could possibly be miscalled Americanism. The naval policies which contributed to the failure...
...continue this sort of thing indefinitely. However, one may safely assume that Augustino Sandino will sooner or later be brought to justice...