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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNUBBED | 4/23/1931 | See Source »

...continue this sort of thing indefinitely. However, one may safely assume that Augustino Sandino will sooner or later be brought to justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNUBBED | 4/23/1931 | See Source »

...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Summer Sports | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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