Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the children of President Juan Bautista Sacasa of Nicaragua sauntered out to the Fiesta de Agosto ("Harvest Festival"), left him seated pensive at his desk...
...have need to be Sons Carlos & Luis and Daughter Maria rushed back the way they had come Though machine guns seemed to be firing though shouts of "Revolution! filled the air, they reached home to find that the Arsenal, not the Presidential Palace was afire. Safe and calm, President Sacasa was swiftly drafting two orders the first proclaimed a state ot siege in Managua the Capital, the second martial law throughout Nicaragua...
...Nicaraguans were killed by the explosion, four were injured by stray bullets Political enemies of the President started rumors that "most of the Government's ammunition has been destroyed- an obvious incitement to revolution. Announcing that it was "not ... a mere accident," President Sacasa grimly ordered in from outlying districts 500 Nicaraguan troops who brought with them plenty of ammunition...
Driven in state to the Presidential Palace, General Sandino was asked to stay all night. President Juan Bautista Sacasa used to be a general. When he laid down his arms at the U. S.'s behest, his subordinate, Sandino, refused to do likewise, fought on, always declaring that he would stop fighting if and when the Marines were withdrawn. Before going to bed Sandino and Sacasa had a thoroughgoing talk, came to terms which they signed at midnight: 1) The undefeated Sandinistas will peacefully present their arms to the Sacasa Government within three months; 2) Sandinistas who present arms...
...partly because of Mexican suspicions that the Nicaraguan Government has been a set-up propped by U. S. Marines. Now that the props are gone, Mexico, according to El National, may soon find it possible to recognize the 100% Nicaraguan Government of newly inaugurated Nicaraguan President Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa...