Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only...
...Senator Dill's filibuster against the Nicaraguan canal survey ceased when the Senate voted to continue investigating the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...Hanneken had arrived in Nicaragua just after Christmas, detailed to the nth Regiment in the Department of Jinotega. There coffee planters told terrifying tales of Jiron and his raids. Hanneken went out into the wilds and, in his own mysterious way, returned with Jiron, handed him over to the Nicaraguan officials...
...given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator Edge went on the air to urge passage of his bill to appropriate $150,000 for a Nicaraguan survey. Said he: "In the event of war, two canals would be of inestimable value...
Accordingly Señor Sacasa was sent last week as Nicaraguan Minister to Washington...