Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behalf of a big private investor named Robert Sterling Clark, offered him $18,000 to address the American Legion convention in behalf of hard money. This the general refused to do. Then, said the general, McGuire. a onetime Connecticut Legion commander, had broached the big plan for the Fascist coup. Du Pont and Remington were putting up the arms. Morgan & Co. and G. M.P. Murphy & Co. were putting up $3,000.000 to raise an army of 500.000 veterans which apparently would be concentrated at Elkridge. If General Butler refused to be "the man on the White Horse" who would lead...
...helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been won, the commander retires to his quarters, dons the ceremonial robes for harakiri, slices his belly open. Another officer administers the coup de gráce with a full two-handed sword stroke...
When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...
...veterans. Last winter they were in the vanguard of the riots against "rotten Parliamentarianism" in the Place de la Concorde when 28 Frenchmen were shot down (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week Paris tingled with electric rumors that the "Cross of Fire" was ready to rise and attempt a coup d'état, should Premier Doumergue be overthrown...
...Manhattan the largest radio audience in the land has thus far been given nothing but the official five-minute releases of the Press-Radio Bureau. Last week "Herb" Moore's Transradio Press announced its biggest coup. Beginning this week potent WOR will serve Manhattan & vicinity four 15-minute news periods, supplied by Transradio, at 8 a. m., noon, 5 p. m., 11 p. m. For that exclusive privilege, Transradio expects to collect $1,500 a week. If and when WOR sells the periods to commercial sponsors, Transradio wants $5,000 a week...