Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan lawyer who had disarmed the Republic of Nicaragua in 60 days with the aid of 3,000 U. S. marines arrived last week at the White House and reported to the President...
...thousand two hundred rifles, 272 machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition were surrendered last week to the U. S. forces in Nicaragua by the Liberal and Conservative armies, heretofore engaged in a civil war (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge, supervised this operation, cabled: "The civil war in Nicaragua is now definitely ended...
...Author became famous when he published in Scribner's (monthly) his War impressions illustrated with burnt-match strokes. While these were selling widely in book form as Fix Bayonets, he was gathering fresh material at his post of duty with the U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...
...capabilities are subject for common discourse, still even the editorial boards of the Nation and the New Republic, if not the Independent, would admit that to him as to all men there come darkmoments, and that the rising hour abounds with them. To give weighty decisions on China, Nicaragua, et at early hours in the morning is no pleasure; especially when buckwheat cakes and the Coolidge presidential Vermont syrup stands complacently before the speaker. Who does not sympathize with the President in his unwillingness to devote precious minutes to political topics and thus deprive the White House cheif of justice...
...harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William E. Borah null...