Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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California Physicians Service, a plan for voluntary prepaid medical care, is a favorite American Medical Association candidate to beat off socialized medicine. This week the C.P.S. plan scored a noteworthy coup: at one stroke it spread over much of the West. Teaming up with similar plans in seven other western states (Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas), C.P.S. set up a system of reciprocal services which will cover 1,000,000 members...
...this coup, Emanuel & friends got control of a utility empire stretching over 20 states and worth $1,119,000,000. There was only one big thing wrong: the depression had come-and with it the paper empire of USEPCO collapsed. With it Emanuel lost most of his personal fortune. The holding-company act, which was passed to put a stop to just such brobdignagian jiggery-pokery as USEPCO, put the headstone on V.E.'s empire. But Emanuel & friends salvaged something good from the wreck. They kept control of Standard Gas and its underwriting, profited on the issues until...
...different view: the Communists had expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...
Bolivians had cut down from a La Paz lamppost the blood-smeared body of President Gualberto Villarroel (TIME, July 29). But in Buenos Aires the Bolivian coup had loosed anti-Peron wisecracks. One of them: "I'm waiting for L-day"-"What's that?"-"Lamppost day." And not only wisecracks. In the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, oppositionist Deputy Ernesto San Martino predicted: "The masses never forgive spurious politicians nor false leaders nor a clay idol...