Word: lisbon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the civil war broke last July, Mola was virtually in retirement at Pamplona. One of the first leaders of the rebellion was General José Sanjurjo who was also killed in an accident, flying from Lisbon. Mola was among the first to recognize the leadership of Francisco Franco, who gave him command of practically the entire northern sector of Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command...
Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...
Correspondents of the United Press at Gibraltar and of the Associated Press at Lisbon reported last week that beauteous, copper-haired Spanish Cinemactress Rosita Diaz, who once sat naked in a bathtub for nine hours during a Hollywood film-shooting, had been shot as a radical spy by the Whites. This made big news. Rosita's picture was splashed over the world's press. At week's end a Hollywood friend sent a cautious cablegram to Segovia saying she had heard that Rosita had been in "a serious accident." Back came a cablegram signed "Rosita" saying...
Week End Snow Train for White River Jet., Vt., Lisbon and Littleton, N. H. scheduled for January 16-17 Cancelled. Snow train scheduled for Fabyan through Crawford Notch Sunday, Jan. 17, cancelled...
This year that dominant moppet, Rachael Low, 13, her sister Prudence, 15, and their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back...