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...Managua, Nicaraguan Capital, the most intensive scandals and squabbles brewed, last week, among all the political factions, each seeking to put itself in a favorable light with the U. S. prior to the coming Nicaraguan Presidential election which the U. S. is to supervise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Parting Shots | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...Managua, Nicaragua. The good will landing of the air ambassador had been somewhat marred in the world's eyes by the death of certain U. S. Marines who were bent on armed enforcement of U. S. decrees in Nicaragua. Col. Lindbergh detoured 30 miles to avoid the battleground. He dropped from the sky into a thunderstorm of welcome. A huge banner billowed out the words "Envoy of Peace and Good Will from Coolidge." An excited restauranteur sprinkled champagne in the street over which he was to pass. National Holiday was declared. Speeches. Eight hundred native school children held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Marvel Child | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...succor wounded Marines that the picks, shovels, hatchets and crowbars rained down. With them an emergency landing field was cleared, smoothed. When planes could land and take off, the more seriously wounded Marines, totaling nine, were flown, one at a time to the Nicaraguan Capital of Managua, and there tucked into clean hospital beds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Marines Succored | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Last week U. S. Brigadier General Frank Ross McCoy returned to Washington from Managua, Nicaraguan capital. Said he, in substance, to the Department of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Nicaragua | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile there arrived at Managua Rear Admiral David Foote Sellers, U. S. N., to succeed Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer as commander of the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. Immediately upon landing, Rear Admiral Sellers was informed by Brigadier General Feland that numerous detachments of U. S. marines were maneuvering with intent to surround and subdue the forces of General Sandino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Marines Rescued | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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