Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Panama, Albania, Norway, Bolivia, Irish Free State, Nicaragua, Ecuador, South Africa. A special train brought New Yorkers to the affair. Tall Miss Doherty-who speaks seven languages-wore a number of bouquets, tossed them bridewise to friends. Favors were drawn from a miniature cathedral in the centre of the supper table. Music was furnished by Sidney's Orchestra, the band selected to play at last year's White House holiday party. Estimated cost of the Doherty debut...
...Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five submarines, snuggled like schools of fish into...
...draft-dodgers. In 1925, when the aircraft carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant-for excellence in gunnery, engineering and communications...
Elihu Root, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State. Nicaragua...
...President's personal representative, Captain Alfred W. Johnson, Director of Naval Intelligence, last week sailed for Nicaragua to act as chairman of the board of president elections...