Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Miss Parsons pulled the biggest coup of her career. Bidding against four Baltimore and Philadelphia investment banking houses for a $30,000 issue of by-pass bonds offered by Salisbury. Miss Parsons submitted the lowest bid ($30,010 at interest of 2½%), walked off with the bonds to the genteel embarrassment of her competitors...
...until I return to the United States." Meanwhile, in the U. S. the story published last week by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette that Hugo Black had once been and still is a member of the nearly defunct Ku Klux Klan (TIME, Sept. 20), ceased to be a minor newspaper coup and became the prize political scandal of the year...
LOST HERITAGE-Bruno Frank-Viking ($2.50). Factually sober, fictionally lively novel, laid in Hitler Germany, about a cultured, honest-minded young nobleman who becomes involved in a monarchist coup d'état, returns after his escape to save an accomplice, settles finally in London (mostly in the British Museum...
...Goncourts began their journal in 1851, on the day their first novel was scheduled to appear. Unfortunately it was also the day Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had chosen for the coup d'etat that made him Napoleon III, so the novel was lost in the political shuffle. In their fight for fame the brothers encountered even graver difficulties. Rabid anti-romantics, they wrote such painstakingly realistic novels that old-line critics whooped "sculptured slime . . . literature of putrescence." To younger men, such as Emile Zola, the Goncourts were prophetic pioneers. Gradually they built up a literary circle- Gautier, Sainte-Beuve, Flaubert...
...Aires since the war ended. Unfortunately for President Franco, he allowed the conferees to persuade him to order his troops back from the front-line positions where they have squatted for two years. Army officers, bitterly resentful that Franco was throwing away their bloody-won victory, carried out their coup, then gave him first a chance to change his mind, and finally the boot...