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...Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall yet capture Managua [the Constitutional capital of Nicaragua] and call new elections...
Edmond and Denise got along pretty well. Then when he was away on a business trip, she fell without much of a struggle to Managua, professional lady-killer, and took the affair so hard that her conscience went to her head, nearly drove her off it. Edmond was so nice about it that she gave up lady-killers for a long Lent. Edmond's father died, Denise rushed Edmond to the throne, encouraged him into such a multiplicity of ventures that at last he failed. But by that time they had so much practice in being partners, Denise...
...seven months later the pilot of a P. A. A. plane flying south from Miami received a radiogram in mid-air to drop his passengers at the nearest station and proceed to Managua, which had just been flattened by an earthquake. Two hours later the Sikorsky was sitting on the shore of Lake Managua, her own radio humming with messages from local authorities. Next morning seven company planes were at the scene. Last September the P. A. A. station at Belize was wrecked by the hurricane and tidal wave which struck the town. In water up to their armpits...
...received a letter from a friend in Quilali, Nicaragua this week requesting me to send him information concerning the earthquake in Managua...
...households reached by clean home newspapers. Hence, Rogers-readers were mildly astonished one day last week to find in his "letter to the editor" a comment which might have passed unnoticed in scores of other colyums but which, for Rogers, verged on the "raw." Returning from Managua to the U. S. via Venezuela by plane, Will Rogers wrote...