Word: moncada
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...their own domain. Last week the U. S. Government found Nicaraguan and Honduran passions running so high that with Costa Rica and Venezuela it offered its "good offices" to mediate. This offer both little states promptly accepted, slimming chances of any clash. Onetime Nicaraguan President José Maria Moncada denied he had said on the radio that he was going to lead an army against Honduras. Briskly U. S. Minister to Panama Francis Patrick Corrigan hurried from his home in Cleveland, Ohio, to Washington. D. C. to accept the role of chief mediator...
...coffee planter father, Sandino got a fair education at Nicaragua's Granada Institute de Oriente, roved aimlessly north. He worked in mines, in U. S.-owned oil fields, in filling stations and for a Banana company. He was back in Nicaragua when Dr. Sacasa and General Jose Maria Moncada set off a Liberal revolution in 1926. A vengeful-looking little man, scarcely five feet tall, part Indian, part Spanish, he talked well, was silent better. He gathered together 800 men and declared war. Sacasa and Moncada agreed to a government compromise, but not Sandino. He dismissed all the married...
...exist in the U. S. One he owns; one belongs to Dr. Luis M. Debayle, Nicaraguan chargé d'affaires at Washington; one to the Pan American Union, which issued it to the Press when Sr. Morales sought to persuade the U. S. State Department to keep President Jose Maria Moncada in power a few more years by "supervising" Nicaraguan elections. On publication of his picture Carlos Morales pointed a furious finger at Luis Debayle. Protesting his innocence, Dr. Debayle offered his resignation to President Moncada who refused to accept it, told him to carry on for Nicaragua...
...officials and citizens instinctively realized last week that U. S. responsibility in a Nicaraguan disaster is precisely like that of Great Britain in an Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
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