Word: vasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zayas Byzan; and said "Rojelio, come to the Palace at once!-No, do not wait to shave or put on a collar or tie! Come immediately!" In less than 15 minutes Byzan entered. (He was one of the seven of us who were never held up by the Guard. Vasco Bello was another; but Carlos Miguel de Cespedes and Viriato Guttierez and others, were not of this favored few.) When Byzan came in he said "What is the matter, Gerhardo?" Machado answered, "Armando Andre was assassinated last night!" Byzan gasped out "No! Impossible! That can't be! Who told...
...protection For shame. While the flower of the young manhood of Cuba is willingly giving up its life in an apparently vain attempt to purify Cuba's national life! . . . . Machado, with good advisers, would have been one of the greatest of Presidents but with such men as Mascaro, Vasco Bello, Arsenic Ortix, Cartaya and others of the same type, as his most confidential councilors and advisers, the explanation may be easily seen: of what might otherwise seem quite incompatible'. For why should a 33rd degree Mason align himself with a 44th degree assassin of such insatiable cruelty...
...Vasco da Gama," Mr. Usher, Widener...
...bouncing little British fleet-sweeper, Jonquil. One shell from the London could scuttle it. Not until the British had established their safety zone did the Portuguese ships begin a fitful bombardment. Soon Minister of Marine Commandante Magalhaes Correia sent a transport and the 55-year-old iron-clad Vasco da Gama clanking down the Madeira coast to land a punitive force on the beach at Santa Cruz and attack Funchal from the rear...
...daybreak off Santa Cruz the Vasco da Gama banged away, first with its eight-inch, then with its six-inch, then with its four-inch gun. Under this lopsided bombardment troops were landed, rebel soldiers fell back on Funchal. No visiting Briton was even pinked. Two days later rebel General Souza Dias surrendered to loyal Commandante Correia...