Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered. Most neutral Paris correspondents agreed with the New York Times that it was too early to guess whether what had been partially uncovered was the makings of a coup d'etat or simply the stock in trade of French smugglers busy catering to the needs of Spain's civil...
...Leopold III, seeing that Hitler's rearmament of Germany in violation of Versailles had created a new situation, secured from Britain and France a release from Belgium's obligation to aid them, while they agreed to remain bound to aid Belgium in case she is attacked. This coup by King Leopold in person, his Minister in Berlin followed up by quietly obtaining from Hitler a pledge that Germany, too, will defend Belgium in case of unprovoked aggression ("TIME...
...popular suffrage. He seized power after his defeat at the polls in 1930 by marching into Rio de Janeiro with an army of his neighbors from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, bottling old President Washington Luis up in jail, cockily proclaiming himself Provisional President instead. That coup has been known as the "Coffee Revolution," since Brazil's former dominant States, São Paulo and Minas Geraes, had been weakened by a collapsing coffee market. Dressy but small (5 ft. 4 in.), President Vargas proclaimed himself a foe of the tottering coffee barons, set out to consolidate...
...Supreme Court, made up to look like nine copies of Chief Justice Hughes, emerges from the park shrubbery to shout "No" at the President, pulls a final coup by declaring everything but itself unconstitutional...
...defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed. Production begins this month, is scheduled for 10,000 for the coming year, 60% trucks...