Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last week Finland's Minister of Interior. Freiherr Ernst von Born, told Finland's Diet that the State was threatened by a coup d'état from increasingly violent anti-Prohibition groups. "Prohibition and the economic crisis." said Freiherr von Born, "have greatly irritated the nation, making it susceptible to direct action propaganda. . . . Extremists are openly challenging the Government, thereby inciting large sections of the populace to lawlessness. . . . Secret bodies have been planning to form 'direct action cells' in both the Army and the Civic Guards. The Government is determined, however, that the constitutional...
...Police secured last week what became instantly famed as the "Boxheim Document." Signed by the six leaders of the Hitler majority party in Hesse this amazing Nazi manifesto set forth what should be done in case a Communist Government should happen to seize the State of Hesse by a coup...
...Fascist "Storm Divisions" should seize the Government by a counter coup...
...Moscow last week Torgsin's smart Sklar scored yet another coup. The State Bank had been wondering what to do about Lawyer Charles Recht who recently arrived in Russia representing New York Life Insurance Co. Lawyer Recht had come about the 21,000 pre-War Russian policy holders to whom his company owes some $3,000,000. He wanted to pay the money at once in dollars...
...putting-out system' is the nearest thing in the English language to what is so well expressed by the French 'coup d'etat,'" is a gem of the student howlers which members of the History Department have encountered in recent years. History is considered the most fertile field in which to find such "boners," a fact that is well testified to by some of the following...