Word: manoel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twickenham last week dashed Scotland Yard detectives, summoned by a close friend of George V whom London newspapers respectfully call "King Manoel of Portugal," despite the fact that Portugal became a Republic...
...Friend Manoel stated that thieves had entered and robbed his house. Taking no chances that it might have been an inside job, the Scotland Yarders methodically took the fingerprints of everyone in the house, including "Queen" Augusta Victoria and "King" Manoel-a precaution which the mildly shocked London Press mildly called "unprecedented...
...wine-shipping Oporto there was little bloodshed but excited crowds hung out the old blue & white monarchist flags and cheered for that amiable flaneur, ex-King Manoel...
...23rd time since King Manoel was driven from his throne in 1910, revolution flared. The igniting spark was the removal from office of Minister of War Col. Schiappa de Azevedo. who had refused to sign deportation orders against the army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves...
...officers at the Alverca Airdrome joined the revolt and took off with a load of bombs. No fools were Commander America Sanchez and Lieut. Manoel Vazquez. Commander Sanchez joined the revolution, swooped back & forth over the roofs of Lisbon firing his machine gun. He suddenly decided that there was little future in the revolt, turned his plane's nose east and came down safely in Spain. Lieut. Vazquez went up with a crate of nearly 200 hand grenades and spent a busy hour tossing them over the side, trying to hit the Presidential Palace. When his crate was empty...