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Nicaragua
Turner, John Kenneth | May 31, 1922 issue

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The author says that the Nicaraguan adventure began in 1909. The first step was an effort to remove Nicaraguan President from power, through a revolution financed by the leader Adolfo Diaz. Before the launching of this revolution, Diaz was a bookkeeper on a salary of about $1,000 a year, in the employ of an American mining company owned in Pittsburgh. Diaz "loaned" the revolution $600,000 gold, the origin of which he was never able to explain. Immediately, there arrived in Nicaragua one Thomas C. Dawson. A meeting with the revolutionary chiefs was held on board an American warship, and a bargain entered into, known as the Dawson Pact.

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DIAZ, Adolfo; REVOLUTIONS; PRESIDENTS; DAWSON, Thomas C.; TREATIES; EXECUTIVE power; NICARAGUA
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