Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonexistent character, while applying to the U. S. Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation. Leading witness was to be a Manhattan doctor, Ignatz T. Griebl...
Meantime Mr. Loree had completed the coup of his life: D. & H. had bought into the Wabash and Lehigh Valley lines for strategic reasons, and when ICC ordered it to sell (Pennsylvania R. R. was only too happy to buy) there was a profit of $20,700,000. In 1932 Mr. Nuelle's O. & W., familiarly known on the Stock Exchange as the Old Woman, was one of the country's 19 Class I roads (among which D. & H. was not included) making money. Then Mr. Loree made the blunder of his life: He used part...
Evidence of Hitler's surprising of Italian governmental circles by his coup in Austria was demonstrated in the Fascist newsorgans, Dr. Salvemini said, showing that when Chancellor Kurt Schussnig returned from his famous showdown with the German dictator, only to make a strong anti-Anschluss speech, the Italian newspapers printed the Austrian leader's inflammatory words on their front pages and editorially commented favorably on his declarations...
...success of the Austrian coup has set a new tone for the German minority. Under present circumstances Konrad Henlein's demands will tend to be unacceptable. Thus conflict in Czechoslovakia will become latent. The 'liberator' can then be called in the moment expert timing makes such a move possible," added the author of "Government in the Third Reich...
Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat...