Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wondering whether Secretary Kellogg has become so infected with the Gilbert and Sullivan fever that is now sweeping the country that he is going to stage an American version of the Pirates of Penzance on the little State of Nicaragua...
...Unless the American Marines are withdrawn from Nicaragua I shall introduce a resolution in the Senate immediately upon its convening, calling upon the Administration to cease its intervention there...
...thereby pleasing many of his constituents who would like to have the U. S. go in and "clean up" Central America and Mexico, who well know the yell of the Yankee "gringo" to the Mexican "greaser." Said he: "The Communists in Mexico are trying to implant their vagaries in Nicaragua, hoping that they may spread throughout Central America and result in a communistic union of Mexico with the other Central American States, of which Calles aspires to be the ruling spirit...
...President Coolidge and Mr. Kellogg withdraw the Marines and let Nicaragua fight out .its difficulties, then they will be creating a new U. S. tradition...
...Most of whom are illiterate Indians and Negroes. There are some 25 U. S. companies (fruit, mahogany, gold mining) having properties in Nicaragua. None compare with the vast U. S. properties in Mexico...