Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...
Rushing at 60 m.p.h. through the westbound tube of Holland Vehicular Tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey one evening last week, a light coupé veered out of the speed lane into the slow lane and crashed squarely into the rear of a lumbering biscuit truck. The car's driver and a passenger were killed. It was the Holland Tunnel's first fatal accident among 43 million cars which have passed through since its opening...
...tube was merged in one lane. Down the other in the opposite direction sped a wreck truck from the New Jersey entrance. Because all motor lights must be extinguished before entering the well-lit tunnel, the wrecking crew was not blinded by the glare of traffic. Quickly the smashed coupé was dragged out. Normal traffic was resumed in 20 minutes...
Tokyo was tense with apprehension of a coup d'état last week. For the first time a newsorgan of first magnitude made articulate the mounting fear that Japan's parliamentary institutions (imported only 42 years ago from the West) might be thrust aside by the military clique which launched Japan on her recent Manchurian and Shanghai adventures...
This statement, appearing under the personal patronage of Japan's Premier while Japanese forces were still occupying Shanghai last week, showed how close the Empire had come to anarchy-the anarchists being that group of Japanese generals and admirals who contemplate a coup...