Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week a column of 400 Marines under Major Archibald Young pressed forward into the fastness of central Nicaragua and finally occupied El Chipote, a mountain 5,000 feet high on the top of which existed, recently, one more of the war bases of General Augusto Cal- deran Sandino, now the sole Nicaraguan commander in the field against...
Communication. ". . . Railway lines have been extended so that it will soon be possible to travel with practically no interruption from the northern border of the United States to the southern border of El Salvador, and in South America from Peru to Patagonia. . . . On the wall of my office hangs a map showing proposed highways connecting the principal points of our two Continents...
...Mundo "The Key of the New World." Down narrow streets, through which once swaggered the conquistadors, modern statesmen strolled with ingratiating mien, at that same Palace in La Habana from which lorded "Captains General" in the proud name of Spain, there stopped last week, briefly and peaceably, Calvin Coolidge, El Presidente De Los Estados Unidos. The Pan-American Conference (TIME...
Latin Delegates to the Conference harkened closely while Senor Calvin Coolidge spoke, joined in the general applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
Meanwhile General Augusto Sandino had withdrawn his forces in good order to El Chipote, 18 miles distant, in the Nicaraguan department of Neuva Segovia. To exterminate him the U. S. Navy took ships (see ARMY and NAVY...