Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Calvin Coolidge appeared to Nicaraguans last week to have assumed frankly and even conscientiously the role of Dictator in Nicaraguan affairs. The President's personal representative in Nicaragua (TIME, April 18), one-time Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, conferred with the leaders of both warring Nicaraguan factions and meted out to them peace terms...
...Charles Evans Hughes, one-time Secretary of State, closeted himself with President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg to discuss ways and means in Nicaragua, Mexico, China...
...onetime Sergeant Stimson crosses another stream at the invitation of another U. S. President. This time it is the Gulf Stream, for last week Mr. Stimson packed his grip and left Manhattan for Nicaragua, where he travels as special representative of President Coolidge. He may interview among others Revolutionary Leader Sacasa; after a month will return to make reports, recommendations. Republicans hope that, through his intervention, the marines may be withdrawn from Nicaragua before their presence can be made an issue in the 1928 presidential campaign...
...Schiff Memorial Trophy,* was struck twelve times by bullets which tore away part of the tail. One bullet struck another marine plane. Soon Admiral Latimer ordered the U. S. planes to mount machine guns and use them when fired upon. Since the U. S. is not at war with Nicaragua this development was piquant...
...believe that conditions in Nicaragua will be bettered in the very near future," said Senator William E. Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "President Coolidge's appointment of Mr. Simpson to represent the United States in Nicaragua leads me to hope that things in Nicaragua will soon be straightened out and there will soon be peace. It looks to me as if the people are soon to have an opportunity to express their opinion on who they desire to be their President; possibly an election in Nicaragua will soon...