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...Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew that President Diaz's soup was not without sediment. The chief trouble was and still is that Nicaragua has another "legal" President-Dr. Juan Sacasa, Liberal, the Vice President who came into power when President Solorzano resigned a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Foreign Policy | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like a score of others, but Mr. Cobb's insight into the preadolescent intelligence or his recollection of the days immediately before the first hair curved proudly on the youthful chest is shrewder than most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

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