Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again U. S. marines were sent last week to occupy Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Round about the city marched and countermarched the armies of the usurper, President Chamorro and the Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with...
Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge kept U. S. marines in continuous occupation of the capital of Nicaragua for 13 years (1912-25). No sooner were the marines withdrawn (TIME, July 13, 1925) than General Chamorro overthrew the Liberal Administration elected during the U. S. occupation and has carried on as "President" ever since though recognized by no foreign power...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...
...Chamorro compelled Congress to banish. Operating from Guatemala, Dr. Sacasa has launched a series of insufficiently prepared and unsuccessful revolts. Last week these counter revolutions were deemed of sufficient magnitude by Secretary Kellogg to call for the presence of U. S. gunboats to protect U. S. commercial interests in Nicaragua. Anti-Chamorrists, vexed, declared that the U. S. is protecting a regime which it will not recognize...
...mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...