Word: lisbon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops of Spain's Revolution were portions of Spain's Government forces hard-pressed and cut off from Madrid. When some of these skipped over the frontier into Portugal, they were harshly driven back to be slaughtered. Perhaps they would have fared less hard had not the Lisbon Cabinet of Portuguese President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona just received assurances that Great Britain will come with culverins "in case of need...
Inside Badajoz, according to reports from Lisbon, the defending Government forces held as hostages all Rightists on whom they could lay hands, threatening to butcher them if the city was bombed...
...afternoon last week telephone operators in Paris, Lisbon and Genoa kept telling people trying to get a line into Spain that the trunk lines to that country had all gone dead. They stayed dead for some 16 hours. Early next morning one short message came over the wire: ''There have been incidents. . . . The number of victims is not yet known." Something big was happening behind the silence and the heavily guarded Spanish frontiers. It was the climax to five months of Popular Front Government, of Socialist and Communist rioting, and of some 250 deaths by violence...
...perjury, later voluntarily spent three weeks under observation in an insane asylum, was charged in 1931 with embezzlement and fraud but escaped trial. Attorney General Wilentz got a copy of the confession, learned that Wendel was being held under guard in a State colony for mental defectives at New Lisbon, N. J., had him ordered turned over to Mercer County (Trenton) authorities. By some mistake Wendel was committed to Mercer County jail, not on the 1931 charges, as planned, but on a charge of having murdered Charles Lindbergh Jr., the crime for which Hauptmann was to be executed three days...
...Notch, at the foot of Mount Washington, reports 44 inches of snow with 15 at the summit of Mount Washington. A weekend snow train will be runs by the Boston & Maine to Woodstock, Vermont. The Woodstock Outing Club is holding its annual meet. Stops will also be made at Lisbon, Littleton, and Lancester, where the snow is between 25 and 27 inches...