Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Howard Stone, "a most skillful expert" who had "hatched" plots before in the Sudan, Iran, Guatemala. Only the day before, said the communique, "this Stone" had set up meetings in Damascus between two young Syrian officers and two Syrian "reactionaries" and promised them $300 million to "stage a coup and make peace with Israel...
Just by following a tariff debate in Congress, Baruch made his first sizable coup of $60,000 in a sugar stock. With it he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $19,000, and married a reserved Episcopal girl named Annie Griffen, who had waited eight years for Baruch to name the day despite her father's unyielding opposition to the match. The market operation that gave Baruch a head start on his first million was inadvertently affected by the holiest day in his own faith, Yom Kippur, on which, as on other holy days...
Meanwhile, the Senate got ready to pass its handiwork this week by a generous vote. It was left to Georgia's Dick Russell to administer the coup de grâce in grand style. The South, said he after a post-victory caucus, had decided not to filibuster against the bill as it now stands...
...hard-up Depression time, and Dick borrowed $1,000 on a life insurance policy, got hold of a battered Oldsmobile coupé to go campaigning 40,000 miles across the state and got elected. He was sworn in by his father, the chief justice (appointed) and then began to rack up such a record of efficiency and integrity-he cut 102 state departments, bureaus and commissions to 17, even dropped his father from two patronage jobs in the state university system-that he was able the next year to run for U.S. Senator and win. In January 1933 Dick Russell...
...COUP DE GRÂCE (151 pp.) - Marguerite Yourcenar - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...