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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then followed two consecutive victories for the Eli, but the 1924 tilt, though taken finally by the Blue is remembered chiefly by Harvard adherents by the strategical coup carried through by the Harvard coaching corps. It was this year that E.L. Gehrke '24, a player who had proved himself in previous years a formidable opponent to the Blue, had been for some time reported unable to play in the final clash with Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Football Series a History of Two Waves of Victory | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

Said both Americas: "A coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: President-Elect | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Regency apparently acted in the belief that Peasant Leader Juliu Maniu, who staged gigantic mass demonstrations last spring (TIME, March 26), might attempt a revolution or coup d'état capable of toppling down not only the Tycoon but the Throne. To forestall this the Regency proposed to call Peasant Maniu to the Prime Ministry. So cataclysmic were events in Rumania, last week, that any prediction seemed mere folly. The fact that international financiers will now almost certainly refuse to underwrite the vitally needed National Loan, unless the Regency recalls Vintila Bratiano to the Prime Ministry, seemed the chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tycoon Ousted | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...celebration of the "March" or Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Duce Deeds | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...behind. A man who sees everything, knows everything and controls everything in the underworld," said Mr. Monaghan, but did not name any name. The diversion of 350,000 gallons of pure grain alcohol from Philadelphia throughout the land was described as the Master Mind's greatest recent coup. In addition to being the upkeeper of its own 13,000 saloons and speakeasies, Philadelphia appeared as a spigot from which alcohol poured out to all parts of the country with a source of supply dwarfing even Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: In Philadelphia | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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