Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reza Pahlevi has indeed had his present status as Shah of Persia constitution-alized by Parliament, but his seizure of power was essentially a coup d'etat, staged by an officer who had frequently foraged supplies for his itinerant Cossack troops in the manner of a bandit...
...ships, Owen Cosby Philipps, Baron Kylsant of Carmarthen. For him they are a bagatelle. He is the greatest Ship Man in the world, the chairman or director of more than 20 British steamship lines with an aggregate capital exceeding ?200,000,000. His greatest and best remembered coup was to purchase, for the interests which he heads, the White
...defeated the bill. His potent, ancestral family controls the Conservative electorate of Nicaragua; and that control enabled General Chamorro to wipe out, last week, his old score against the U. S. State Department, which refused to recognize a government set up by him, some years ago, after a coup d'etat...
...this week in the field where Morgan, Hill, and Harriman have fought their battles; Michael J. Meehan, financial genius, emerged, a trifle dishevelled, but richer by several millions. All this is very pleasant and bewildering for him, but there is a little static in the news of his radio coup. No biographer has stepped forward to pen the life of the wizard. Of course, there are the columns of the press and they have done fairly well, but hurried reporters are not able to do justice to this subject. The spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit...
...forgotten Dictator Theodore Pangalos? Less than two years ago he was master of Greece. Hard, cynical and perpetually sneering, he domineered. Then a coup d'état similar to that by which he had seized power upset him and he was clapped into jail (TIME...