Word: managua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lieutenant Talley was in command of the engineers sent to relieve the city of Managua after the earthquake there in 1929. The city had caught fire after the quake and the engineers battled the fire without water for five days before...
...Managua, Nicaragua an Atlantic Coast Airways plane cracked up in a forced landing, drowned Mechanic Jack Odum of Abingdon...
...fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses and paved streets dark and quiet. There was not a U. S. Marine in the place. Across the lake a pink plume of smoke rose from Mount...
...illustrious President is absolutely innocent of responsibility for what has occurred." Days passed and no one was arrested for the crime. The body of "The Worthy Saint" was dug up and reburied. And last week his followers kept ominous silence as one by one they slid out of Managua, going north, toward Mount Tough Guy and the guns...
Murdered. Augusto Cesar Sandino, "bandit" and U. S. Marine-baiter; in Managua, Nicaragua...