Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both parties, with a general strike trump up their ragged sleeves in case of emergency. The Chancellor has ordered gallows to be erected for public punishment; mass demonstrations have been outlawed; the opposition press is now effectively muzzled. One thing which this situation ensures is that the German coup d'etat will not be reproduced in its original form in Austria. No single party will be able suddenly to toss aside democratic forms and seize power while its adversaries sit dazed by the Unexpectedness of It All; every faction is keenly aware of the danger which the others present...
...announced no budget plans, admitting that China's Treasury is now plunging $10,000,000 further into the red every month. With China's biggest bankers in a towering rage and with Chinese soldiers always for hire cheap, scores of government officials decided that some sort of coup against Generalissimo Chiang might be attempted, hastily quit their offices and hid at home...
...years ago was one of the first movies in which two male stars appeared together. John and Lionel Barrymore in one of their best performances are pitted against each other as the gentleman jewel robber, Arsene Lupin, and the chief of the Paris detective forces. Lupin's crowning coup is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Lionel, frustrated time and again, snorts, stamps, and raves superbly...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...