Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortune and a famous thoroughbred stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...
...time there were even rumors of a military coup. Generals and admirals met in a succession of emergency conferences, and out of the meetings came word that some officers thought it was time to depose Getulio Vargas. But to do that they needed the backing of the army, and to win that they had to convince the army's boss, War Minister General Euclyde Zenobio da Costa. The War Minister vetoed any change. The army, said he, "should guarantee constitutional liberties and Brazil's legally constituted government"-i.e., Vargas should be allowed to serve the remaining 17 months...
Hilton was not saying where he would get the cash to finance his latest coup. But the Manufacturers' Trust Co. promptly lent him $8,000,000 to make a down payment on the 753,000-share Statler-family block, and the word was that insurance firms might lend him another $66 million. The remainder will probably come from debentures and a small Hilton stock issue...
Good for Progress. On the evidence of his first days in office it was clear that Castillo Armas planned no abrupt swing to the right. His coup came to Guatemala in the midst of a ten-year-old social revolution against a series of dictatorships that had ruled for 105 years before. The rebel, who sided with Arbenz in the 1944 overthrow of Dictator Jorge Ubico, has no nostalgia for the old days. Last week he promised to consolidate all "social reforms benefiting the working class" and to "continue the public works begun by our enemies." Land redistribution, which...
Squeezed by chronic inflation. Chile's workers have become strike addicts, and their burning discontent has benefited the Communists. Though the party is outlawed and the Ibanez government is antiCommunist, the Reds have burrowed deep into the labor movement. Their biggest coup was the capture of Clotario Blest. White-haired Bachelor Blest, longtime head of the National Association of Government Employees, is a strange bedfellow for Communists. He is a Roman Catholic whose favorite reading is the Thomist philosophers. In 1952 the Communists invited Blest to Moscow along with other labor leaders. The fact that Holy Week services were...