Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...customary to announce the election results only if the Administration party won. The President's unorthodox action so shocked his Red supporters that they revolted anyway and for three months Honduras enjoyed a Red v. Red-&-Blue revolution. Last week Rebel General Jose Antonio Sanchez had fled to Nicaragua and the revolution was over...
...foreign countries and possessions of the United States are represented for the first time in several years. These are Alaska, Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Egypt, Ethiopia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Straits Settlements, and Yugoslavia. Canada heads the list of foreign students, as in previous years, with 51 men. China follows with 32, and Hawaii takes third with 24. England kept her position with...
With elaborate courtesy El National, official newsorgan of Mexico's Government party, praised President Hoover last week for withdrawing the last U. S. Marine from Nicaragua (TIME, Jan. 9), diplomatically concluded: "Mexico was a spectator in this complicated story of international interests fighting an unequal battle. It is not difficult to guess toward which side our thoughts were influenced by fraternal sentiments...
...Mexico broke off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua, had not resumed them up to last week, partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find it possible to recognize the 100% Nicaraguan Government of newly inaugurated Nicaraguan President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa...
...chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...