Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last three weeks the Hearst newspapers have been printing facsimilies of letters reported to have been written by General Calles of Mexico, indicating activities in Nicaragua and Russia, which are interesting, if true, although possibly untimely...
...addition to the work in the Corn Islands, Peters will study the birds of an unfrequented desert region in Nicaragua, and expects to return to the University in April or May of next year...
...series of daily exposures of the innards of international machinations, it has been disclosed that the recent anti-American drive in Nicaragua had its inception under Mexican auspices. This received as little attention in extra-Hearstian circles as did the revelation that the Calles government was adopting Soviet methods in such details as the president's addressing his aides as "comrade". But the last accusation, that Calles paid a Maine lawyer $10,000 to investigate British mine conditions during a strike in order to insure the judicious expenditure of $100,000 which he planned to give in the name...
...issues of two weeklies there are charges that in two countries which during the past year have been the scenes of American interest, trouble has still been going on without benefit of publicity. The Nation, always a trouble-maker, quotes first Mr. Frank Stimson, President Coolidge's representative in Nicaragua, as reporting to his chief on the fourteenth of May that the insurrection in that troubled country was ended; and follows with a list of casualties since that date in the continued fighting between the Marines and the natives; fighting which however necessary, has been all but completely ignored except...
...that his opinion on Mexican affairs may carry weight--does not make sufficient allowance for the nature of a modern newspaper. Marvellous, in its completeness and accuracy, as the spotlight of publicity may be, it shifts, like all spotlights from one part of the stage to another, leaving now Nicaragua, now Mexico, now Ohina in total darkness after a brief if brilliant illumination. History however goes on being made in the dark. Such charges are a challenge to journalism to prove that no important news is being withheld or minimized because the public is tired of the subject...