Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such...
...Foreign diplomats believed that Goering would go from Valencia to Madrid and confer with Generalissimo Franco on the prospects of Spain's alignment of her large army with the Rome-Berlin Axis...
WARSAW--Poland tonight hastened to assure Berlin and other capitals that the "complete normalization" of Polish-Soviet relations resulting from the visit of Russian Foreign Vice-Commissar Vladimir P. Potemkin bars any offensive alliance against Germany...
...announcement was issued as Potemkin conferred at length with Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck on means of improving friendship between the two nations in the mutual interest of their independence had frontiers...
Expecting University cooperation, the club decided Saturday to rent a house beginning next Fall, in which the students will reside. Similar to the International House at Chicago University, the plans call for a resident body that will be 50 per cent American and 50 per cent foreign...