Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines had taken to wife...
Coffee is down. So are Nicaraguan bananas, hardwoods, sugar cane. The result was a near-record registration and a landslide victory over Conservative former President Adolfo Diaz by the Liberal candidate. Dr. Juan Bautista Sacasa. Along toward 3 a. m., when his triumph was conceded. President-elect Sacasa modestly declared. "This is a victory for Liberalism...
Exactly five years ago the U. S. State Department was denouncing Sacasa & Friends for trying to set up a "Bolshevist hegemony" menacing the Panama Canal. They were supposed to be financed by Mexico, which was also suspected of Bolshevist leanings...
Dwight Whitney Morrow cleared up the Mexican vapors. In time U. S. Marines proved to Dr. Sacasa and to all but one of his generals that in Nicaragua obedience to law & order is the best policy, and that the U. S. will not prevent orderly Nicaraguan politicos from taking their turn at the Presidency...
Last week the only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years?was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall...