Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afraid that many civil servants would have to quit their jobs or die of malnutrition because the 50% depreciation of Nicaragua's currency has raised living costs beyond their reach, drastic Finance Minister Benito Ramirez last week doubled the pay of all Government employes, including himself...
...Carlos, Nicaragua, on Feb. 23, 1894, according to U. S. Immigration records, French and German parents gave birth to one Jean Dee Jarnette, who was brought to California in 1910, ran off to sea two years later. In 1923, after Jean Dee Jarnette had roamed restlessly over Europe, Australia and the South Seas, he was convicted of rape and sent to California's lone Reformatory. In 1931, he was again convicted of rape and carrying concealed weapons, sent to San Quentin. There he confided to his cellmate an ambition that had slowly been forming in his mind...
...Calvin Coolidge. To such a resourceful man as Chiang the fight is not necessarily hopeless. Japan is not the U. S. Her resources have already been badly strained and it is conceivable that if the fight is sufficiently long and costly, it may break her economically. Nor is China Nicaragua. She is so large that any invader inevitably has long lines open to attack, and so populous that her resources of man power cannot soon be exhausted. Her greatest weakness has always been in will power. If Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling can maintain their will as China...
...Diplomatic convention provides that when a new Ambassador arrives in Washington, he array himself in a cutaway, pay a formal call at the White House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua, who arrived at the White House in a business suit, greeted the President in his office instead of the stately Blue Room, puffed a cigaret while the President chatted with him for 15 minutes...
...TiME stated: "To the governments of Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Albania, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala it [Rightist Spain's territory has been for almost a year an autonomous state...