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...Reed was anathema, they said: "The most commanding figure in the greatest deliberative body in the world, we indorse him as Missouri's candidate for President of the U. S." In his home town (Kansas City), they said: "He has a horror of corruption."* Democrats from coast to coast perked their ears, pondered on that impressive 64-year-old figure of Senator Reed. They thought of the year 1928; remembered that William Gibbs McAdoo was a back number in presidential politics that Governor "Al" Smith was waning in the West...
...Liberal counter-revolutionary leader, onetime Vice President Sacassa. Total casualties for the week were roughly estimated at 100. After a particularly fierce skirmish, President Chamorro courteously requested the commander of the U. S. gunboat Tulsa, which was anchored at the port of Corinto, to steam seven miles up the coast to the scene of battle and take care of the wounded, since neither army was equipped with a medical corps. Dutifully the Tulsa steamed out to tidy up the battlefield, found no battlefield to tidy at the spot designated by President Chamorro, returned to Corinto. Subsequent reports declared the battle...
Meanwhile Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer arrived on board his flagship the armored cruiser Rochester, anchored off the Nicaraguan fortress of Bragmans Bluff, on the eastern coast, awaited orders from Washington...
...beginning to the end of time by the Americans." Governor General Leonard Wood had been there three days before, had left without waiting for the Emissary. Strong men strained, heaved up anchor and Mr. Thompson again resumed his comfortable deck chair, gazed about as the boat proceeded down the coast of Mindanao, richest undeveloped island under the U. S. flag. Occasionally the party would land and thereupon be presented with the usual requests to continue U. S. rule. As his good ship lay off Zamboanga, Mr. Thompson was told that a Filipino-Moro clash had broken out over a question...
...gunboat Galveston steamed through the Panama Canal last week turned northward and cast anchor in the Nicaraguan harbor of Bluefields. Simultaneously the U. S. gunboat Tulsa anchored off Corinto on the opposite (Pacific) coast of Nicaragua. Thus U. S. cannon faced each other across the 200 mile extreme width of a nation with which the U. S. is at peace. Several hundred U. S. marines were landed with fighting equipment at Bluefields...