Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...
...Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur and Thomas Cochran, partner'in J. P. Morgan and Co., arrived at Cedar Island Lodge as guests of President Coolidge. Secretary Wilbur talked about Nicaragua...
...Nicaragua. Early practical results of the present U. S. Marine intervention in Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926 et seq.) were the defeat and flight of a Liberal President, and the maintenance in power of a Conservative President. Last week a Liberal victory at the forthcoming Nicaraguan election seemed imminent, because the Conservatives are split into two factions, each claiming to be the "Historic Conservative Party." Therefore General Frank Ross McCoy charged by President Coolidge with the supervision of the Nicaraguan election, ruled that neither Conservative faction would be allowed to present a Presidential Candidate representing "The Historic Conservative Party...
...meet this serious situation Secretary of the Navy Wilbur finally decreed, last week, that the battleships Texas, Idaho, New Mexico and Pennsylvania shall be stripped of their Marine complements to provide leathernecks for Nicaragua...
Last year the Coolidge Administration announced that 1,200 Marines would be kept in Nicaragua until after the election; but that number has now been multiplied 4 times. Colonel Clifford D. Ham, who has been Nicaraguan Collector General of Customs for the past 16 years, said recently, upon resigning his post...