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...Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman and Dr. Alexander Lyons would be speakers representing the three faiths. Tenor John McCormack, who sang at Dublin's Eucharistic Congress last year and who last week was awarded Notre Dame's prized Laetare Medal (annual, for distinguished Roman Catholic laymen), would sing Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicas. And President Roosevelt would speak, perhaps in person, surely by radio...
...desperado who must be exterminated. Lurking in the hills and jungles of northern Nicaragua, he and his 500 guerrillas slew 135 U. S. officers & men before President Hoover withdrew the Marines (TIME, Jan. 9). Last week Nicaragua's arch-desperado and Robin Hood, tough little General Augusto Cesar Sandino, flew down from his mystery base in the north to Managua, capital of Nicaragua, and was smartly saluted by 50 native National Guardsmen (trained by U. S. Marines...
Last week the only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall...
Died. Paul Marie Theodore Vincent d'Indy, 80, French composer (Istar Wallenstein, Fervaal), pupil of the late Cesar Franck, co-founder (1894) and director since 1911 of the Paris Schola Cantorum; in Paris...