Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares short and take your profit in the slump that will follow our coup. There cannot fail to be a slump. We are going to assassinate the entire Cabinet, the leaders of all political parties, and nine great dignitaries including Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal...
From that day to this the erstwhile Cambridge literatus has remained in obscurity, laying his plans for the coup that would one time fulfil his destiny--rocket him and his Bacon to their rightful pinnacle in literature's hierarchy...
...handbill intimates that life since Boylston Street has not been without profit. The plans for the coup have been made and the hour is near--3 o'clock sharp tomorrow afternoon on Boston Common. From the soapbox nearest Beacon and Charles Streets he will launch the final attack with the novel cry "Absolute New and Positive Evidence that Bacon wrote Shakspere...
...fortnight ago, the Kentucky tradition still held good in bloody Harlan County. County Attorney Elmon C. Middleton, a Republican with apparent Laffoon affiliations, climbed into his coupé in front of his house, stepped on the starter. Instantly the machine exploded with a thunderclap, went to pieces like a paper bag. Attorney Middleton died almost instantly. Experts estimated that, had the other 17 sticks of dynamite under the car's hood gone off, the whole neighborhood might have been wrecked. But not one life was lost in the voting three days later...
...rumored hourly and Royalist slogans appeared, "Vote For Georgios II, A Democratic King!" The Tsaldaris Cabinet announced it would hold a plebiscite Oct. 27 on a restoration of the Monarchy-provided, of course, that a settlement of the issue by the trusty and traditional Greek method of a coup d'état did not occur before then...