Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat must march with the squad, Senator Ransdell, bearded Louisiana interventionist, might add his patriarchal pep to the rear rank. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, who despatched six more warships to Nicaragua last week, all the while keeping a shroud of silence over the ugly hulking war scare, should also do his bit in the squad?perhaps a hornpipe. Finally, Democrats agreed, the very man to march in the rear rank, just in front of File Closer Kellogg, would be his former law partner, Assistant Secretary of State Robert Edwin Olds. Mr. Olds it is whom rumor accuses of successfully...
Altogether the news from Washington must have seemed to Rear Admiral Latimer, in Nicaragua, as it came in over the radio, like the broadcasting of an opéra bouffe called "NICARAGUA BETRAYED, or Are Mexicans Bolsheviks...
...more pertinent reason for Rear Admiral Latimer's presence was the fact that President Diaz's forces had been defeated by the Liberals. After all, if the U. S. is going to have a protégé in Nicaragua, it might as well protect him by armed intervention...
Such reasoning caused a flare of protest in Mexico, in South America, in Europe. Last week alarm was sounded in Washington. President Coolidge's Official Spokesman said that he was deeply concerned. He called for Secretaries Kellogg and Wilbur; they conferred for two hours. Nothing was announced. Rear Admiral Latimer remained on duty in Nicaragua. Senators and outsiders kept the question heated...
...Negro was visited a night later. Hooded men tied his hands and feet together; where his hands and feet came to a point behind his back they fastened another rope, took a turn around the rear axle of an automobile and started off at full speed down the road. The dragged body was torn beyond recognition. He had been accused of stealing turnip seed...