Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, acting through Secretary of State Kellogg, formally notified Nicaragua that the U. S. would support the government of President Adolfo Diaz...
...name of a new President was set down last week in the voluminous annals of Nicaragua, crammed for centuries with an almost unexampled record of Spanish tyrants and Latin American usurpers. The new President, Señor Adolfo Diaz, was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress in joint session, an assembly so accustomed to being bullied by armed factions in Nicaragua that its acts must always be regarded with suspicion. Apparently President Diaz was elected because he is known to be persona grata to the U. S., which intervened to support him when he was previously elected President...
...Diaz's latest elevation to the Presidency followed the "Peace Conference" between the revolutionaries of Nicaragua and the former Nicaraguan Dictator General Chamorro, which took place aboard the U. S. cruiser Rochester, anchored in Nicaraguan waters (TIME, Oct. 4). Reputedly during the conference, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer- commanding the Rochester took General Chamorro aside and imparted to him some gruff sailorly home truths. Thereafter General Chamorro, having made up his mind that the U. S. would not recognize him as President, resigned that office, which he had held by force, and Señor Diaz was elected. Instant...
Early in the spring of the year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...
...should have no connection with the See of Rome. Though many of the Roman Catholic prelates of Mexico are pure-blooded Mexicans (some are even Mexican Indians), the Episcopate has hitherto repudiated all proposals of this sort. None the less Mexican news organs reported last week that Bishop Diaz of Tabasco "Generalissimo of the Episcopate" had been recalled hastily from a tour of the provinces by the Archbishop of Mexico to confer as to a compromise with officials of the Mexican Government...