Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...command of the 3,000 marines now stationed in Nicaragua (TiME, May 23) is Brigadier General Logan Feland. His state of mind last week was indicated by a radiogram which reached his wife at Atlantic City, following the successful action at Ocotal. She read: "All seems well today. Thank God for the power of aviation that saved our men. Love...
Right or Wrong? The Ocotal affair revived last week with greatest virulence the question whether the Administration of U. S. President Coolidge has been right or wrong in its recent dealings with Nicaragua (TIME...
...patriot," but instead the decision that he is "an outlaw . . . whose acts have no political significance." The Secretary backed up this postulate by stating that General Sandino's men have recently sought to maintain themselves by foraging upon the. property of U. S. citizens and others in Nicaragua. Thus they would fall directly within the scope of U. S. marines sent by President Coolidge "to protect the lives and property of U. S. citizens...
...reason for Mr. Stevens to talk about the Panama Canal. Last winter he quietly went down to Panama to see how the big ditch looked after 20 years. His talk was his first publication of his impressions, which were, chiefly, that a $500,000,000 sea-level canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River...
...aided efforts to show the possibilities of controlling malaria in nine North American states and in Porto Rico, Nicaragua, Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Spain, Poland, Palestine and the Philippine Islands...