Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barring the possibility of a coup d'etat by one of the Roman Catholic insurgent leaders in Mexico, the first opportunity for an orderly change of government will be the Mexican presidential election of 1928. The present reactionary Mexican group headed by President Calles will, of course, put Senor Calles' old and strong friend onetime (1920-24) President Alvaro Obregon into the race, but who is the chief pro-Catholic candidate...
Standard Oil of New Jersey. President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard of N. J. was first to protest when Vacuum Oil's and Standard of N. Y.'s Russian coup became public knowledge three weeks ago. President Teagle has long been an intimate friend of Sir Henri Deterding. Their companies carefully forbear intruding into each other's markets. Said President Teagle: "The impression has been created, both in Europe and in this country, that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, in the face of the present overproduction in the U. S., is buying Russian oil to displace products...
...Lewis articles gained wide notice in the U. S. Editors-envied the Evening Post its coup. Foreign correspondents outwardly echoed the sentiments of the Evening Post's Miss Thompson in Berlin, who said to Super-Reporter Lewis with mock grudging: "I guess it's all right, but it does seem a rather long way of saying, as I could, 'Flew to Vienna. Quiet...
...Sinclair Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal...
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