Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-month grant of extraordinary powers to handle the extremists. All Cabinet members resigned to give the President a free hand, but were later persuaded to hold on to their jobs. By last week, President Alessandri's police investigators had dug up enough evidence to make the abortive coup d'état one of the best documented revolts in Latin-American history. Revealed was a list of 12,000 alleged financial contributors to the rising. Among them were Santiago's Ford dealer, Carlos Orrego, and a University student named Mario Perez who had planned to study engineering...
Died. Manuel Garcia Prieto, Marqués de Alhucemas, 78, onetime (1917-23) Premier of Royalist Spain; in Burgos. When, few months before Primo de Rivera's 1923 coup, he was publicly asked whether a military clique was planning to take over the Government, the Marqués replied: "If it were true they would have to pass over my dead body." Thereafter friends & enemies alike called him "The Corpse...
...familiar figure on the Tech campus, with his up-tilted head and rolling gait, Professor Wiener is as famous for his ebullience and absentmindedness as he is for his erudition in mathematics, philosophy, theoretical physics, politics and linguistics. Students have heard him cry when making an intellectual coup: "Hot stuff, boys! Hot stuff...
...firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania Tax Notes. His astute bid of $109,928,008 plus $500 was high by precisely one cent. Christopher Devine then unloaded the entire $60,000,000 in 45 minutes...
Griped Newark's greying Mayor Ellenstein over the Little Flower's coup: "Without the first consideration for the lives of passengers and pilots, Mayor LaGuardia seems determined to resort to every stratagem to have New York designated as the official Eastern airway terminal...