Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond returns from vainly trying to incite a revolution in Nicaragua to find those greatest of academic blasphemies, the examinations, apparently over. The r. p. m. of Nicaragua is not what it used to be. He returns from gun-running in the face of the marines to a quiet corner in Sever 11 and the drone of the immemorial past. It was, however, too late to break into print on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Professor Whitehead last Saturday. To one to whom time conceptions are merely mental gymnastics, age a philosophical paradox, it is almost impertinent...
Last year he made this speech in Pittsburgh : "The opposition candidates [in the Nicaragua elections] were declared bandits when it became necessary to elect our man to office." He explained to Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams that he had spoken only in fun. But it was reported last week that that Nicaragua speech predisposed Secretary Adams against him when a new Marine Commandant was chosen (TIME, Aug. 18) and that their relations were further strained when General Butler laughingly introduced Mr. Adams at a Quantico dinner as "Secretary of the God-damned Navy...
Last week the editor of the New York Times received from Nicaragua a cablegram distinctly of the letter-to-the-Times type. Excerpt...
...desire to see more American Marines killed and to witness the sending of their bodies to the United States. Ambuscades similar to the one at Las Cruces, where the Marines were recently killed, result in loss of prestige for the United States and even more for Nicaragua...
...President of Nicaragua...