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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...
...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...
Accordingly Seņor Sacasa was sent last week as Nicaraguan Minister to Washington...