Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adios! Adioos! wailed many a black-eyed belle of dusty Corinto last week as she waved farewell to her khaki-clad "matrimony."† The U. S. Marines were at last leaving Nicaragua for home. The long planked pier at the Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes...
Dwight Whitney Morrow cleared up the Mexican vapors. In time U. S. Marines proved to Dr. Sacasa and to all but one of his generals that in Nicaragua obedience to law & order is the best policy, and that the U. S. will not prevent orderly Nicaraguan politicos from taking their turn at the Presidency...
...only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall yet capture Managua...
...meeting last Sunday, applications were filed by the various colleges for the countries which they desire to represent. Last year, the French, Siamese, and Chilean delegations were composed of Harvard men. The Harvard applications this year include Great Britain, Paraguay, Bolivia, Siam, China, Denmark, Australia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Panama; three of these countries will probably be assigned to Harvard...
Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa...