Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Port Mahon, Minorca's chief town, the British cruiser Devonshire called last week. On board was the Count of San Luis, a Franco negotiator. The British arranged a conference at which Loyalist leaders were told of an impending attack, were threatened with starvation even if the attack were repulsed. Upshot: the red-&-gold Rebel flag was soon unfurled on Minorca and the Devonshire sailed away toward Marseille with 450 Loyalists who had feared to stay on the island...
That Italy was anything but happy over this British intervention in the war was evident from Italian newspapers, which warned Britain that it was now too late to be nice to Generalissimo Franco. A more direct sign of displeasure came when Rebel bombers raided Port Mahon while the Devonshire was still in the harbor, dropping their cargoes so near the cruiser that the crew manned her anti-aircraft guns. Not much more reassuring for the British was a Rebel version of the Minorca surrender which ungratefully toned down Britain's "good offices," trumped up a tale about a brief...
...resistance in northern Catalonia collapsed, and in a swift advance northward from Gerona the Rebel Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco occupied Figueras, for eleven days the fourth capital of Loyalist Spain. As last as their transport could keep up with them, they bore down on the frontier towns of Port-Bou, La Junquera and Puigcerda. It was only a matter of hours before the Generalissimo would wipe out the only remaining Loyalist territory in northern Spain and be master of the Spanish side of the French-Spanish frontier from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean. A Republican official told...
This week A. A. R. stepped up to get some of the business for the railroads. It announced the roads would take a passenger from any town in the U. S.-even Miami, or Brownsville, or Kennebunk Port-transport him to San Francisco, carry him on to New York, then back to his home, all for $90 in coaches, or $135 first class, with Pullman charges added. The railroads are not in favor of freight "postalization," but this was the plainest kind of passenger postalization...
Died. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 65, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; of a heart attack; in Port Deposit, Md. The only avowed candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Republican Convention in 1932, he was forcibly ejected from the convention rostrum when he attempted to withdraw his name and substitute that of Calvin Coolidge...