Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President who came into power when President Solorzano resigned a year...
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, who is the cartoonist's picture of a retired farmer, bristled at the chin whiskers when he lauded U. S. intervention, thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which...
There is many a big cow ranch in north-central Florida and on one of these Hughlette Wheeler was raised. Never until September, 1925, did he have a piece of modeling clay in his hand. Last year, Cowboy Wheeler, aged 24, presented himself at the Cleveland School of Art for instruction. Later, in his cheerful Florida drawl, he told his publishers about his second day at school...
...central sets follows...
...oldtime, blundering, self-crucifying British individualism; for an egotism whose one sinew is self-respect, that Author Ford's central figure stands. When the War came, Christopher Tietjens of Groby, ponderous, gentle, clumsy, omniscient, was already under the triply complicated strain of an abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that...