Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands and his thousands into millions by a series of wily maneuvers which have enabled him to get control of a huge, commanding bloc of Wagons-Lits securities. Shrewd, unctuous, Captain Cohn is not, however, the man to be satisfied with mere control. He is planning an amazing, manipulative coup. Last month he and Lord Dalziel visited Manhattan and quietly applied to list the shares of Wagons-Lits upon the New York Stock Exchange. If that listing is granted, they are reported to plan nothing less than the sale of both Wagons-Lits and "Cooks' " to U. S. investors...
...leadership the Harvard elevens became incarnations of smooth power and merciless efficiency that crushed all opposition. Evolving a complicated system of hidden ball plays, which were revolutionary in American football, Haughton uncovered the system which was the envy and despair of every coach in the country. Even after his coup in the 1908 encounter, it was four years before he scored over Yale, but minor victories came thick before this...
Last week, by an international financial coup whose benefits to her will be threefold, France emerged from her dilemma with $75,000,000 loaned to her by the Swedish Match Co., the largest advance ever made to a Government by a corporate enterprise of this kind. France must pay but 5% to the Swedish Match Co. for the money. She saved $1,850,000 in annual interest; she rids herself of the old $70,000,000 issue, a nuisance: (with the new funds it may be called and paid for next March 15); and she obviates possible delicate dickering with...
...Noli '12, Harvard graduate, author, translator, orthodox priest, bishop, liberal, and former premier of Albania, has been sentenced to death. This sentence has been given him and eight of his compatriots for recently signing a manifesto protesting against the regime of Ahmed Zogu, who executed a coup d'etat in December, 1924, ousting Fan Noli from the Presidency. The sentences were by default, however, since all of the condemned men are living abroad...
Defending himself against impending suspension, prearranged at last week's meeting of the school board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...