Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister in an adjoining country somewhat exceeded their authority, ran a dare-devil courier service, kept the world informed, kept what they had done from the knowledge of all but a few grateful...
...banker, bought for $3,000,000 a 40% interest in the Denver & Salt Lake. "Others are interested in this deal," admitted Banker Burr. Who the "others" might be stirred much Wall Street cogitation. Arthur Curtiss James, the Lon Chancy of rail investing, was inevitably suspected of having engineered the coup...
Fanny, the pretty little Burmese-Italian half-caste, was the immediate cause of Mandalay's downfall. When good King Mindon died, and the unscrupulous Supaya-lat married Thibaw, a minor prince, and engineered a coup d'etat which landed him on the throne, his brothers and their supporters in a bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court...
...China's 400 millions who can read chuckled last week at vernacular newspaper accounts of a coup by the wily bandit chief of Megntzu. The 40% hastened to spread the story among their less literate brethren...