Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
...years Brazil has become a commercial battleground between the U. S. and Nazi Germany, on which the stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo Aranha. Vargas as President, Aranha as Ambassador to the U. S. and later as Foreign Minister, have been Latin...
...sick man was Subhas Chander Bose, who last month scored a coup by engineering his own election to the Congress Presidency against Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's wishes. But what the Congress did last week made President Bose sicker than ever. Mahatma Gandhi's prestige, having been vastly enhanced by his victorious fast (TIME, March 13) against Rajkot's ruler, which ended last week with a glass of orange juice, the Congress Working Committee voted 218-10-133 to follow the Mahatma's moderate program in the future, rather than Bose's radical one, in their...
...early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...
...machine-gun squad. "I am assuming the Executive post since General Benavides is leaving Peru," announced the Minister. "Hand over your command." The officer pretended to accept the order. Once outside the palace, however, he quickly telephoned the President's home, informed General Benavides' aides of the coup, then locked himself in the palace observation tower and trained his machine guns on the entrance to the building. Inside the palace, the Rodríguez followers armed themselves. Self-proclaimed President Rodríguez hurriedly prepared two manifestoes, one to the people, the other to the armed forces...