Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deplore the landing of U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, the U. S. military occupation of Haiti. I will not send troops to Cuba under any circumstances, believing that the responsibility for preserving law and order in Cuba should be shared by all American Governments alike. I invite them to exert diplomatic pressure at once to settle the turbulent state of Cuban political affairs...
...they complied, and as his father was a Congressman. Smedley started his martial career as a 2nd lieutenant. Once with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part in the fighting at Vera Cruz, in 1914, and for the capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says...
...night last week the children of President Juan Bautista Sacasa of Nicaragua sauntered out to the Fiesta de Agosto ("Harvest Festival"), left him seated pensive at his desk...
...firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
Jumpy after the explosion, a sentry posted near the Presidential Palace fired several shots at a motor car which whizzed past in the night, not knowing that it contained Senor Rafael Huezo, acting manager of the National Bank of Nicaragua. Lifted from his car. Senor Huezo was carried into the palace where President Sacasa, for years a practicing physician, personally dressed a bullet wound on the banker's head, murmured, "not serious, dear friend, not serious...