Word: sacasa
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...Marines left Nicaragua in 1933, they left behind them an idea of a cure for continuismo: a constitution that forbade a President to be succeeded by a kinsman; and a potent, nonParty, Marine-trained National Guard headed by General Anastasio Somoza, whose wife is President Juan Bautista Sacasa's niece...
...that the National Guard merely became a third party and General Somoza, for all his kinship to the President, went out for the Presidency with all his U. S. guns. Two years ago Somoza's men assassinated his chief enemy, famed Rebel Augusto Cesar Sandino. Last month President Sacasa tried desperately to stall off his kinsmen by getting Nicaragua's two parties to agree to nominate only one Presidential candidate for Nicaragua's elections next autumn, first since the Marines left...
Married. Helen Lee Eames Doherty, step-daughter of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty; and Theodore Wessel, Danish sportsman; at the home of President Juan Bautista Sacasa in Managua, Nicaragua...
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...