Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second diplomatic coup was in 1926. With the franc falling to 3 cents, and no bottom in sight, anti-American sentiment reached a peak. Mr. Herrick took several hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to purchase a new Embassy and bought francs, all the francs he could, "to show America's belief in the stability of France...
...Leon Toral. had been executed by a firing squad, earlier in the week. The officer in charge with a pistol which once belonged to General Obregon, had stepped up to the prostrate, bullet-riddled body of Toral, pressed the pistol to the temple and delivered the classic Mexican coup de grace...
...this while the Government serenely concealed the major news that there had been arrested in Valencia, as a chief conspirator, the potent Conservative leader, Senor Jose Sanchez Guerra, who was Prime Minister of Spain shortly before sword-handy Don Miguel seized power by a coup d'etat (TIME, Sept...
...which became anarchy last summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...
Commenting on the situation to a French correspondent, after the coup, His Majesty observed significantly...