Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reynolds of Chicago. Iowa-born 66 years ago, he is in his Sist year of banking. With his brother Arthur he built up the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust to fourth largest in the U. S., biggest outside New York. Famed as merger masters, the Brothers Reynolds accomplished their last coup in 1929 when their bank absorbed Illinois Merchants Trust Co., onetime stronghold of Ernest Hamill and John J. Mitchell...
...Paris, and Budapest gossips kept repeating that France was demanding, first 11% on her money; second, the appointment of French officials as financial supervisors of Hungary; third, the leasing of the state railways; finally the resignation of Count Bethlen who has long been anti-French in policy, whose greatest coup was signing a virtual alliance with Benito Mussolini...
...first act of Rossini's Barber of Seville* This month CBS scheduled a one-hour performance of Mozart's mighty Requiem from the Salzburg Cathedral. After half an hour of howling and squawking (thunderstorms) it was taken from the air. NBC got the idea, planned a coup with its Bayreuth broadcast...
...fooled and lost heavily when Raymond Poincare stabilized and rehabilitated the money of his country. Second they invested in Dutch industrials, lost more. Third they got in on the Wall Street boom, making so much that, even though they lost much in the crash, Wall Street gave them no coup de grace...
...government office is not. As a loyal Monarchist for years, he served as a deputy in the Cortes and as Undersecretary of the Interior. He was a member of two Cabinets: Minister of Public Works (1917-18), Minister of War (1922-23). Said Primo de Rivera before his coup d'etat...