Word: yanquis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandino and train a native national guard, young Somoza got on so well with the visitors that he was nicknamed "El Yanqui." In 1933 when the Marines left, Anastasio Somoza, then 38 and his country's Foreign Minister, became commandant of the Marine-trained Army. Three years later he used it to run his wife's uncle, President Juan Bautista Sacasa, out of the country. He had himself elected President in due constitutional style, then resigned, rewrote the constitution, got re-elected in new style for an eight-year term. Thus neatly sidestepped were all objections from such...
Author Farson noted with weary spleen that all South Americans are "Yanqui-haters," that all tourist publicity is phony, that the Germans and Japanese are mak-ing mincemeat of U. S. trade. He found a Japanese circus, a Japanese typewriter repairman; Japanese had even gone into the business of making imitation shrunken human heads...
When President Roosevelt had the good judgment to send them Mr. Daniels, Mexicans could see at first only that they were expected to receive the Yanqui* who was Secretary of the Navy when it bombarded Veracruz in 1914. Ambassador Daniels was called a "living insult" to Mexico-last year. Today the politicos of Mexico City can scarcely believe they ever were so dumb...
...idea from the Yanqui plan organized by the United States Caudillo Francisco Roosevelt. . . . It's a great idea, supply and demand, and it saved us from closing shop. When a man called Francisco Roosevelt can do it, so can a man called Francisco Gomez...
...Navy Swanson into Havana Harbor, an unknown Cuban fired a pistol at it. And last week the great, grey battleship Mississippi was steaming slowly back & forth off Morro Castle. President Grau San Martin changed the new government's tune. The streets suddenly blossomed with banners: "Down With Yanqui Imperialism!" Col. Batista said: "I will say only that we are now under the Cuban flag...