Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young lady who keeps calling Dante Maggiotto on the D Entry phone? Doesn't she know about Freddie? Hayes Grant Wood really pulled a coup the other day--except that it was the wrong house. For further details on this extremely cloudy subject we suggest Mr. Wood see any of the boys he couped...
...fill-in on that conference. He must rely for that on Jimmy Byrnes (who was not fully informed either) and perhaps on Harry Hopkins (who returned to the Mayo Clinic after Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). Yet, before his Administration was 48 hours old, Truman scored a major diplomatic coup in persuading an apparently willing Joseph Stalin, whom he has never met, to send Foreign Affairs Commissar Viacheslav Molotov to the San Francisco conference (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Senate subcommittee seemed on the verge of recommending to Congress that the U.S. adopt a chosen-instrument policy. But in the last few weeks, under heavy fire from the Army. Navy and CAB, the idea has steadily lost ground. American's Damon may well have given monopoly its coup...
...rightist Hellenikon Aima quietly printed a confidential letter written by General Plastiras during the Italo-Greek War of 1940-41; in it he had urged German mediation. The leftist press decried this crafty revelation as a "royalist plot," warned that royalist officers were planning an armed coup and were using the letter to get Plastiras...
...Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, bullyboy and cloak-&-dagger man, who in 1936 took part in the bloody coup against the Government. In 1937 he ordered the bombing of the U.S.S. Panay. His motto: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit and talk...