Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan Francisco de Cardenas, Spanish Ambassador, escorted Adelardo Fernandez Arias, New York correspondent of Madrid's illustrated daily A. B. C., into the Hoover office for introductions. Other visitors: the Lancaster, Pa. High School Class of 1891 (to shake hands), Matthew Elting Hanna. U. S. Minister to Nicaragua (to say good-by), Andrew William Mellon, Ambassador to Britain (to say good-by), Lawyer James Naumburg Rosenberg of New York (to introduce his son Robert), Counsel James Francis Burke of the G. O. P. National Committee (to talk politics). ¶From the U. S. fish hatchery at Nashua...
Since the War General Nogales has written Four Years Beneath the Crescent, The Looting of Nicaragua. If jaguars, hurricanes, boa constrictors, crocodiles, firing squads do not get him first, Venezuela may be liberated...
...means for the League's effectiveness, a provision to deal with such problems as the present Sine-Japanese difficulty, a weapon to castigate offenders against world peace. Further it would act as an international police force to preserve order, to take care of such disturbances as perennially occur in Nicaragua, or in various Balkan states...
...more violent. The two volcanoes reared their heads. Fire, ashes, lava spouted from their mouths, peasants shivered at the sound of their abdominal rumblings. Ashes fell a foot deep on nearby villages, destroyed coffee crops for miles around. Guatemala City was under a cloud that spread from Mexico to Nicaragua. After two days the shocks stopped. The city still stood. The buzzards went back to their vigil...
...Hoover requested Congress to bring the W. W. F. D. Commission back to life to deal realistically with the debt problem as it exists today in the light of Depression. In a special message on foreign affairs the President talked about the World Court, Manchuria, the St. Lawrence Waterway, Nicaragua, Haiti et al., but these topics were all pushed into the background of public interest by what he had to say on War Debts. Excerpts...