Word: managua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came a call, last week, for 600 more U. S. Marines to be sent to Nicaragua. The caller, Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy, is in Managua, Nicaragua, entrusted with the task of enforcing, next Fall, a fair and impartial election (TIME, May 28, et ante). He was doubtless chagrined, last week, when the Navy Department responded to his call with, in substance, the following reply...
...Davison and Fechet recommended doubling Panama's air defenses. Perhaps to hasten the passage of appropriations, they abandoned their plan to fly home along Peace-Dove Lindbergh's route through the Antilles. They returned as they had gone down, in long hops of their Loening amphibians to Managua, Vera Cruz, Tampico, Brownsville, Washington...
Nicaragua.The Administration's answer to last week's news from Nicaragua (see p. 18) was a quiet order to the Navy Department to send 1,000 more marines to Managua at once. The week's news was that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming...
...marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying a fairly adequate food supply, tapping rich agricultural sectors, and passing rapidly from point to point; whereas the American troops, to cover this same region, and maintain intact their line of communications with Managua and Leon, must swing over an arc half again as long...
After the vote, triumphant lights twinkled far into the night at the sumptuous Managua residence of famed onetime President of Nicaragua, General Emiliano Chamorro. He had defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...