Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico expelled General Roberto Hurtado, exiled some years ago from Nicaragua. The Mexican authorities accused General Hurtado of being an avowed Nazi who had appealed to the German Minister to Mexico for planes to use in an attack on the present Nicaraguan regime...
...which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known as a highly efficient fellow who has turned in excellent reports from all his posts, last of which was at the U.S. Legation in Managua, Nicaragua...
...British zoologist who putters about the tropics studying small animals, writes this, his fourth book, with an air of cheery teatime banter which yet smells of good, scientific formaldehyde. It ranks him with such literate naturalists as Henry Walter Bates (The Naturalist on the Amazon), Thomas Belt (Naturalist in Nicaragua), William Beebe (Jungle Peace...
...Presidency, was elected in 1935. In 1939 a constitutional convention extended his term until 1945. President Tiburcio Carias Andino of Honduras took office in 1933, has suppressed at least five attempted revolutions since then. In 1939 Congress extended his term for ten years. In Nicaragua President Anastasio Somoza took office in 1937 and promptly revamped the constitution. By resigning the Presidency (after appointing himself Acting President during his absence from office) he was able to have himself inaugurated a second time in 1939 for a longer (eight-year) term, ending in 1947. Panama's President Arnulfo Arias pushed through...