Word: gibraltarism
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Gatti-Casazza (as a British repair crew came aboard at Gibraltar): "I am not going ashore. Gibraltar has not changed in 50 years. I was once here as a naval cadet...
...York mayoralty nobody doubted. Last week the question of whether the city would elect a new Mayor in November was before the State Court of Appeals. Tammany seemed as bent as ever upon putting "Jimmy'' Walker back in City Hall. Citizen Walker, stranded aboard the Italian Liner Rex at Gibraltar (see p. 15) exclaimed: "My political future is at stake.'' This week Tammany is to hold a nominating convention, on the eve of which "Jimmy" Walker was supposed to arrive triumphantly like Napoleon from Elba to be renamed for his old job. The Rex's breakdown cancelled this...
...October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With Italy only one sea day beyond Paris, Il Duce expects his Italia Line will now bring swarms of U. S. tourists to enrich his Fascist land. Time of the two big ships from Manhattan to Gibraltar will be four and a half days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping...
...being taken to Madrid for trial by the Supreme Court, Premier Manuel Azana began retiring all officers suspected of complicity in the revolt. In frontier towns scores of escaping monarchists were arrested. The Marquis de Festival, at whose Seville house General Sanjurjo made his headquarters, was chased toward Gibraltar by Civil Guards. As the pursuers' car drew up alongside his car he jammed on the brakes, jumped out, waded into the Strait and began swimming. Later a motorboat picked him up, still swimming toward Africa. In Seville mobs burned monarchists' homes, freed Communists and Syndicalists from jail, mobbed...
...19th year in 1908, revolutionists stormed the carriage in which he was riding with his father King Carlos and brother Crown Prince Louis Philippe, shot the King and Crown Prince to death. Manoel was crowned three months later. In 1910 a second revolution sent him scurrying to Gibraltar. Dom Manoel, who had never wanted to be a king, was quite satisfied when the republic allowed him to keep his property, valued at some $50,000,000. He led a pleasant life as the royal lover of beauteous Gaby Deslys, refused to return to Portugal in 1919 when Royalists proclaimed...