Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this wise old original was entertaining the wife of neighbor Nicaragua's President Juan Sacasa over the New Year holidays in high, pleasant San Jose. Her departure was an occasion for a parting gift. One of Costa Rica's three railroads had been electrified and had some obsolete equipment. President Jimenez presented Senora Sacasa with two oil-burning locomotives, used but serviceable, for Nicaragua's under-equipped railroads...
...State Department has been irate ever since the munitions inquiry began in September over the disclosures of graft paid to foreign officials: "Commissions" to the head of the Nicaraguan National Guard with the knowledge of President Sacasa; "presents" to General Padilla, Guatemalan Minister of War, to permit the importation of "sporting" guns; to a Mexican general "to make his life more pleasant" to a citizen of Honduras who "always gets permits because he advances money to public officials including the President himself" a 4% commission to Chinese officials on a Chinese powder purchase. This a du Pont official admitted...
President Sacasa had completely lost face by his failure to catch Sandino's murderers. A grave, honest gentleman, graduate of Columbia University, he was made for peace. Last week Nicaraguans rumored that he was "actually the prisoner of General Somoza," that his personal bodyguard took orders from Somoza...
...named Pedro Jose Zepeda popped up in Mexico City last week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
...that the U. S. Minister to Nicaragua Arthur Bliss Lane had luncheon with General Somoza only a few hours before Sandino was assassinated by Somoza's National Guardsmen." Well-known is the fact that Somoza has potent friends among the U. S. citizens in Nicaragua, as has President Sacasa...