Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time, Gene Howe gave a tea for her at which 40 of his Amarillo cronies appeared in frock coats rented from Chicago. She called him "the queerest person I have ever met." Three years ago Gene Howe performed his greatest journalistic coup. An Amarillo lawyer named A. D. Payne, suspected of killing his wife by placing a bomb in their automobile, went to the News-Globe office and asked Editor Howe to find the real culprit. With the aid of the Kansas City Star's crack Crime Reporter A. B. MacDonald...
...stupendous effort of military-economic preparation for defense in history. To help put the Dictator's program across, newsorgans throughout all the Russias printed scare stories to the effect that Japan's sword-handy War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki is about to stage a Fascist coup in Tokyo, will emerge as Premier and launch an immediate war on Russia...
...means active business. These advantages are obvious; the hidden results of lowered productivity, inefficient bureaucratization of industry with no ideological myth as an incentive, exploitation of the proletariat and of the rentier by rising prices are obscured. Given this situation, an intelligently led Conservative Party could engineer a constitutional coup d'etat. Once involved in a tioup of industry and government, parliamentarism would have to be dispensed with, England would be fascist. TERTIUS...
There are many more details in the saga of Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, all faithfully reported by the newspapers, all either ignored editorially or considered as just so many more gems in Senator Long's crown of folly. Senator Long seized power in Louisiana by a coup of this same kind, he has retained it by a series of them, but all of this is treated, not as a sign of the times, but as an individual eruption unrelated to the larger questions of the forum. Why is Long in Louisiana less of a political phenomenon than Mussolini in Italy...
...their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with the introduction of the concentration plan...