Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Karakhan, the Bolshevik Ambassador, was popularly supposed to have inspired it; Dr. Sun Yat-sen's name was also mentioned; some thought it was a desire on the part of the Provisional Government to seize precious treasures hidden in the City; most were of the opinion that the coup forestalled an attempt to restore the Ta Ch'ing Ch'ao (Great Pure Dynasty...
...time of the seizure of the City, Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, prospective President of the Republic, was absent from Peking, as was the victorious General Chang, Super-Tuchun of Manchuria. The former, as shown by his attitude during the abortive Monarchist coup d'etat of 1917, is a loyal Republican ; but Chang is at heart a Monarchist. What would happen, therefore, when the latter heard of the happenings at Peking, not one Chinaman could tell another...
...This coup was sprung while the N. Y. Central, the B. & O. and the Penn- sylvania were deadlocked over the future ownership of the Central New Jersey and the Reading. But the energetic Van Sweringen brothers kept right on acquiring roads; their system lacked entry into Pittsburgh, and rumors became active in Wall Street that the Pittsburgh & W. Virginia, the Lackawanna and other roads might soon be added to the new Nickel Plate...
...word plebiscite comes from the Latin word plebiscitum, a decree of the plebs or common people. It was resurrected by the French during the Revolution and possibly its most famed application in modern history was in 1852 when the French coup d'etat of 1851 was confirmed and the title of Emperor of the French given to Napolean III. In Switzerland, under the name of referendum, the plebiscite has been in existence for a long time...
...Gregorio Amunategui, Rector of the University of Chile. War: General Bennett. Public Works: Angel Guarello, onetime Minister of Justice and at present the most prominent Democrat in the country. Thus did the Army officers accomplish by the pen what is usually undertaken in Latin America by the sword-a coup d'état. Not only this, they apparently received the plaudits of vast sections of the Chilean populace...