Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eustoquio Gómez, a cousin of the old Dictator, who as Governor of the State of Carabobo gained a reputation that smelled to high heaven for torturing political prisoners. Under his orders at least three men were hanged in chains to be eaten by vultures. Attempting an unplanned coup d'é in Caracas, General Gómez was shot down like...
Even for Paris excitement had mounted high on a Communist-Socialist tide of alarms that Fascist youngsters were going to attempt a coup d'état and hurl white-whiskered statesmen of the French Republic into the icy waters of the Seine (TIME, Dec. 9). Not at all anxious for such a ducking is bewhiskered old Radical Socialist Deputy Henri Guernut, considered a great specialist in French political dirt because he was Chairman of the Chamber's Stavisky Committee. Accusingly last week Old Guernut shouted across the Chamber at Premier Pierre Laval: "The plotting of the Fascist Leagues...
...killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass of suffering humanity, with isolated groups of French deep in Russian lines, crazed Cossacks lost among French refugees. Weary of slaughtering, Cossacks stole clothing, then gave their victims clothing they had stolen from others. Frightened at reports of an "idiotic" coup in Paris, alarmed at the lack of news, Napoleon fled with Caulaincourt across Poland and Germany to reach France ahead of news of the catastrophe. For 14 days they traveled, while Napoleon poured out his theories of monarchy, his opinions on his family and mistresses, discussed England, the future...
From then the show grinds on in dreary monotone. The patient audience is wafted back and forth, back and forth between the fairyland of Casinario and the prosaic world of fact. Of course, M. Banco effects a coup d'etat in the land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration...
...cold, funereally decorated diplomatic reception room of the State Department. There Cordell Hull has signed agreements with Cuba, Haiti, Belgium. Sweden, Brazil, Colombia.† But because Canada is a far better trade prospect than all those countries combined and because Franklin Roosevelt loves nothing better than a sudden spectacular coup such as a ten-day treaty-hatching, the scene of the signing was transferred to the President's office...