Word: moncada
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blandly next day President Jose Maria Moncada of Nicaragua (chosen as the result of the Coolidge-supervised election) issued a tactful communique...
...Identify definitely, but briefly, each of the following: 1. Jose Maria Moncada; 2. Chiang-Kai-Shek; 3. John Roach Straton; 4. M. Bleriot; 5. Frank R. McCoy; 6. Henri Wilhelm Deterding; 7. Alvan T. Fuller...
...Hoover had not yet seen a Latin American President, though at Amapala, President-Elect Colindres of Honduras had appeared. At Corinto, not only President Adolfo Diaz was present but also onetime-President Frutos Chamorro, "Conservative" leader of 17 revolutions in the past four years, and President-Elect Jose Maria Moncada, "Liberal" leader whose election was overseen by U. S. Marines. All three boarded the Maryland to break bread and discuss common desires. At a shore reception, Mr. Hoover had been handed a glass of champagne which he politely touched to his lips but did not sip. He now toasted Nicaragua...
Common desires expressed by MM. Diaz, Moncada & Chamorre were, a) To retain some U. S. Marines to continue training the Nicaraguan national guard; b) to persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with...
...next candidate for "permission" to run for President of Nicaragua was José M. Moncada, generalissimo of the Liberal army which fought Conservative General Chamorro...