Word: calderon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge sent 6,000 Marines to Nicaragua and their officers told them to "Get Sandino dead or alive!" In two years of furious guerrilla fighting no one ever "got" General Augusto Calderon Sandino, though at last this slender, sallow, wild-eyed patriot was driven from Nicaragua after his men had killed 21 U. S. Marines (TIME, March 12, 1928). Last week a roving correspondent found Sandino in Yucatan, the arid Mexican state which bulges like a sand blister out into the Gulf of Mexico...
...Famed bandit-patriot Augusto Calderon Sandino, who is still defying some 3,000 U.S. Marines to capture...
...leader of these raids was Manuel Maria Jiron, onetime chief assassin for the late President Manuel E. Cabrera of Guatemala, and more lately a "general" in the guerilla army of Augusto Calderon Sandino, Nicaragua's brigand-patriot...
Such atrocities would more than justify U. S. intervention. They are ascribed by the McCoy report to a "gang led by Pedro Altamirano, trusted lieutenant of Sandino." The latter is of course General Augusto Calderon Sandino, who has raised the standard of revolt against U. S. occupation (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) and is still successfully defying capture by U. S. marines. Since Sandino depends wholly upon his fellow-countrymen for contributions to support his army, the news that he is cutting off the hands that feed him is peculiarly challenging to alert belief...
...Signed) Augusto Calderon Sandino, "(Seal...