Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rivers, from Manhattan to Washington, to serve as Secretary of War. President Wilson commissioned him a colonel of artillery and sent him across the Atlantic to fight with the 77th Division. President Coolidge despatched him first, across the Caribbean to Nicaragua to patch up a peace between Diaz and Sacasa and later across the Pacific to be Governor General of the Philippines. President Hoover recalled him to sit at his right hand at the Cabinet table...
...Root Sacasa MacWhite...
Juan Batista Sacasa was regarded, two years ago, as little better than a Nicaraguan bandit. Although he deemed himself the constitutional President of Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 29, 1926), his Government was not recognized by the Coolidge Administration, and his repeated contentions that his party (Liberal) comprised a majority of the Nicaraguan electorate was ignored...
Therefore President Calvin Coolidge sent U. S. Marines to intervene in Nicaragua and supervise a "fair election." The election resulted in a Liberal majority, and in the choosing of a Liberal President of Nicaragua (TIME, Nov. 12) exactly as predicted two years ago by Juan Batista Sacasa...
Accordingly Seņor Sacasa was sent last week as Nicaraguan Minister to Washington...