Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's event in Rhode Island was an aftermath of last January's legislative coup d'etat. By a rotten borough system Republicans had always held control of the State Senate, and by an ingenious law, the Senate, if it did not wish to confirm the Governor's appointees, could name other officers in their stead. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor might be Democrats, the General Assembly might be controlled by a Democratic majority, but Republicans still ran Rhode Island. Such was the situation in 1933 and 1934. One afternoon last January, when Governor Theodore...
This was to say that prefects must be more energetic in suppressing both radical and reactionary groups now hankering for a coup d'etat against the French Republic; must enforce Premier Laval's emergency decrees, especially those forcing down food prices, with greater vigor; and must not play politics with local disaffected groups. True Frenchmen and therefore argumentative, some 30 prefects next made the Premier listen to their views on how France should be run, each speaking out with vigor before the assembly about special conditions in his department...
With the exception of the Piggly Wiggly corner in 1923, the Stutz coup was the last big corner ever executed on the New York Stock Exchange. In a pious moment a few years later the Governors took steps to prevent them by rules & regulations. Another result of that squeeze was to dump considerable amounts of Stutz stock in the hands of the good friends of Allan Ryan's father-principally Charles Michael Schwab. Except for one short interlude, Bethlehem Steel's aging chairman has had Stutz ever since...
With Austria's two picturesque political adventurers. Vice Chancellor Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg and Major Emil Fey, both on vacation, ambitious youngsters in their turbulent Heimwehr organization loudly demanded of each other why they did not seize the trembling government then & there by a coup d'etat...
...Knowledge, he gave it Will Durant. When it wanted Russians, he gave it Russians. Prodigally sowing Big Names and New Names with talent in his slick and shiny monthly, Editor Long reaped a 1,700,000 circulation harvest in 1929. That was the year he printed perhaps his greatest coup: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge...