Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
...eyesight, he enlisted in the U. S. Food Administration, served as executive secretary for Pennsylvania. In 1920 he began 13 work-packed years with the National Municipal League. In 1922 the League's President Charles Evans Hughes, then U. S. Secretary of State, sent him to straighten out Nicaragua's messy election system. The Dodds Law which he whipped together in a few months still helps to keep Nicaraguans honest. He spent 1925 in Chile as technical adviser to General Pershing's Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission. Hard-pressed Nicaraguans called him back twice in 1928 to help...
...Managua, Nicaragua an Atlantic Coast Airways plane cracked up in a forced landing, drowned Mechanic Jack Odum of Abingdon...
President Roosevelt's larger purpose, however, was to gain Latin American goodwill. Even without a treaty the U. S. can, under international law, still land troops to protect the lives and property of its citizens in case of danger, as it has done on occasion in Nicaragua, Haiti, Mexico. Moreover, under the Monroe Doctrine the U. S. still preserves its policy of refusing any European nation the opportunity to acquire a foothold in Latin America. By giving up the Platt Amendment the U. S. therefore gave up virtually nothing of practical importance, while winning the kindly regard of those...
...obvious fault in The Key as occasional drama is that the incidents which it relates could have occurred just as well in Nicaragua or Cincinnati. Nonetheless, Dublin decorations do not damage a good melodrama. The Key is well constructed and acted with proper enthusiasm. Under Director Michael Curtiz, who took pains to get all the possible wear out of his sets, Edna Best does a commendable job in her first important cinema role. Good shot: a genial Irish bartender advising Captain Kerr to leave by the back door where he knows an ambush is in wait...