Word: corinto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mature opinion, expressed last week by Major General John Archer Lejeune, famed "Biggest Leatherneck of All," Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. He had just completed a thoroughgoing personal inspection (TIME, Jan. 16) of Marine activities throughout Nicaragua. Last week as he went aboard the cruiser Rochester, at Corinto, Nicaragua, and prepared to sail for Panama, "Leatherneck" Lejeune delivered heavy parting shots as follows: "The boys are well liked by the Nicaraguans. At every place I visited, Nicaraguans greeted me cordially. I was able to visit these places and get first hand information. I appreciate conditions better...
...British Government sent the cruiser Colombo to anchor off Corinto, but gave notice that it would not transgress the Monroe Doctrine by landing troops...
...usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield to tidy at the spot designated by President Chamorro, returned to Corinto...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...