Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicaragua.The Administration's answer to last week's news from Nicaragua (see p. 18) was a quiet order to the Navy Department to send 1,000 more marines to Managua at once. The week's news was that the Nicaraguan Congress had rejected the new electoral law which the U. S. Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming...
...matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa...
...Sandino's ammunition is practically gone. In so far as Nicaragua is concerned, he is finished and is simply trying to escape...
Just a month ago the above optimistic information was considered so authentic that it formed the nub of a report to the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee cabled by Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, commanding the U. S. special service squadron in Nicaragua. At the same time a prominent Marine field commander in Nicaragua, Major Archibald Young, was quoted as saying that the greatest difficulty encountered by his men was from wood ticks & fleas...
...Marines killed last week were part of the detachment of 36 commanded by Lieut. Edward F. O'Day, who was escorting 85 unloaded pack mules back from the outpost of Yali to the advanced Marine base at Condega in Northern Nicaragua...