Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vouchers. In this stalemate bewildered motorists reached the deadline for buying 1936 licenses, got high-priced tags or went without.* Those who waited angrily began plunking down 50? penalties when Governor Johnston admitted that he lacked power to sell $3 tags. Meantime, remembering that Governor Talmadge's coup had temporarily cut Georgia off from Federal highway funds, Sawyer adherents expected fresh trouble for Governor Johnston from Washington any minute...
When news reached Moscow that Manchukuo troops under Japanese officers had just attacked the Soviet frontier and killed several Red Army guards, the Soviet Press jittered anew against England. Russians read bug-eyed that the Greek Republic has been friendly to Dictator Mussolini, that last week's coup to restore George II is a cunning move by the Government of his kinsman George V to alienate Greek friendship from Italy...
...minority were out-&-out Royalists. (Republicans had boycotted the June election of the assembly.) Last week, prodded by a life-size Kingmaker, the deputies amid wild cheers voted to abolish the republican constitution, revive the old monarchical constitution of 1911. hold a plebiscite Nov. 3 to confirm Kondylis' coup d'état and, finally, recall "Gorgeous Georgios" to the throne. The Government hastily ran off new stationery with the Greek royal arms...
News of the bloodless coup d'etat reached dapper little George II in his hotel in London's West End just before dinner. He dined with his aide, went out to a Mayfair party and had the kind of evening anyone would envy, telling his friends he would not accept the throne of Greece unless a majority of the people wanted...
...Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris found a split in the Army clique, edged it out of power and put in his present Premier, the 70-year-old botanist, Andrew Tosheff, under a semi-Fascist "authoritarian" Government. Colonel...