Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post which he had obtained by intrigue and managed to hold for only about a year. Ousted, he began to conspire with the likewise disgruntled General Kondylis (exiled last week) and with Admiral Hadjikyriakos (his present silent partner in dictatorship). In 1922, the three were about to launch a coup d'état, when two other discontented officers, Colonels Plastiras and Gonatas, got ahead of them. The adroit colonels sprang a coup of their own; sprang it first; sent King Constantine packing for the last time* acknowledged his eldest son, George II, as their King; and proceeded to "dictate...
...Leonard Wood locked in a deadly political embrace, and there was Hiram Johnson of California harrying the flanks of both with his delegations gathered through the primaries of states here and yon. On the outskirts to be sure were the friends of Senator Harding of Ohio, preparing a little coup...
After many sudoriferous hours, the friends of Senator Harding executed their coup and Harding was nominated. Then while plans were being laid for nominating some good regular for Vice President, the obdurate Judge McCamant rose and suggested the name of the Governor of Massachusetts?quite unexpectedly. And the convention in a mood to do the unexpected, nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. And in the summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present...
Pangalo's reliance on the old principle of chance is not without shrewdness. Even in America, state lotteries were the most popular of taxation until a puritanic court declared them illegal. Indeed, the Greek premier's clipping coup d'etat bids fair to place him in the Ponzi class of promoters...
...implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents in Bavaria are planning to attempt a coup, aided by the Ludendorffers. It was generally admitted, however, that the possibility of such action is almost nil for the present...