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February 21, 1927

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State Department Announcement.

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. -- While a rumor that the United States had intervened in Nicaragua animated official and diplomatic Washington on this sleety, slushy Sunday, the State Department announced that additional armed forces are being landed on Nicaraguan soil to protect American and foreign lives and property and to preserve railway communication between the American Legation guard at Managua, the capital and the sea.

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LIQUOR DEATHS RISE IN OTHER STATES AS IN NEW YORK; Dr. Nicoll Declares Increase in Alcoholic Mortality Nation-Wide Since 1920. RATE TRIPLES IN PERIOD Maryland's Percentage of increase 857, Kentucky's 525 and New York's 371, ASKS FOR FEDERAL ACTION Calls for Preventive Measures to Be Taken at Conference of Public Health Service. RISE IN ALCOHOLIC DEATH RATES. LIQUOR DEATHS RISE IN OTHER STATES

By Special to The New York Times

Statement on deaths from alcoholism in various States; asks that preventive action be taken at conf of State and Territorial Bds of Health, called for next May by Surgeon Gen of U S Public Health Service

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Notable Births

Erma Bombeck

1927Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (died 1996)[†]

Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. Fifteen books of her humor have been published; most became bestsellers.