Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short of a military coup d'etat or acquiescence of Adolf Hitler in a coalition this prediction seemed flatly unfulfillable. Observers inclined, however, to see in General von Schleicher and Baron von Gayl precisely the pair who may be able to draw Adolf Hitler into a Junkers-Army-Fascist coalition, thus giving the Fatherland a fresh and iron front, potent in dealing with other nations...
...nitrate trust (Cosach), looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup...
Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...
...Macbeth Gallery gave first exhibitions to Homer Dodge Martin, Alexander Wyant, Robert Henri, George Luks, William Glackens, John Sloan, Ernest Lawson, dozens of others. William Macbeth's greatest coup was his sponsorship of his funereal friend, the late great Arthur B. Davies. Sensitive Artist Davies had a studio right over the gallery, lunched with William Macbeth every day, used to bring his pictures down to exhibit before the paint was dry, was always free to borrow all the cash in the till...
Last week Publisher Lorimer and Reporter Marcosson may have regretted their coup. For in one of the most smashing statements ever made by a firm of auditors, Ivar Kreuger was last week pronounced a crook, a swindler, a falsifier of books...