Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a coup d'état hoisted dumpy Getulio Vargas to Brazil's presidency in 1930, no one had a longer and stronger finger in the proceedings than Senhor Aranha. Since then in Brazil he has been called "The Strong Man." The grateful Vargas made him first Minister of Interior and Justice, later Minister of Finance. A fervent admirer of President Roosevelt, Senhor Aranha promulgated an "Economic Readjustment Act," abolished the gold milreis and repudiated the gold clauses in foreign utility contracts...
...opportunist" TIME meant that sharp Publisher Schuster is alert to every opportunity to score a publishing coup, did not mean he was lacking in principle. But TIME cannot subscribe to Author Durant's concluding maxim: "Of the living, nothing but what is good...
Putsch, literally translated means riot, attempted insurrection. Unlike the French coup, which may or may not be accompanied by violence, a Putsch is always an armed political riot. Should it succeed, a Putsch becomes revolution...
...Papen did not go to Vienna last week. He was said to be insisting that his presence in Austria would be worse than useless so long as Germany supported the so-called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details of how its former members were hungrily...
When Death came to Tibet's potent Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have...