Word: nicaraguan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand...
...Marine Corps average for the year was 17,983 enlisted men, 1,020 officers. Two thirds of this force was on expeditionary duty in Nicaragua, China, Haiti. Of Nicaraguan intervention Secretary Adams explained obliquely: "To carry out the agreement of the U. S. with the Conservative and Liberal forces of Nicaragua to guarantee a free and fair election it was necessary to increase the U. S. forces operating against bandits...
...guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn in pursuit of the Nicaraguan bandit Lobo (Sandino...
President Hoover is keeping only 1,500 Marines in Nicaragua-as mentors for the newly established native National Guard. Recently a group of leading editors in Managua, Nicaraguan Capital, manifestoed: "We have reached the limit. On the one side the Marines and on the other the National Guard . . . are committing disgraceful acts left and right. . . . We are complying with our inalienable duty as editors and patriotic Nicaraguans in pointing out the danger and calling the attention of the Nicaraguan Government ... to the need of enforcing order and decency in the troops who command...
...Eleventh Engineers sailed from Panama for Nicaragua well loaded with tripods, telescopes, plumb lines, and other surveyors' gadgets. By order of Secretary of War James William Good they will map the route along which the U. S. has the right to build an inter-ocean Nicaraguan Canal. The right was bought...