Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus quietly ended the chapter of an other would-be strong man. In Panama the new Cabinet rescinded the ex-President's decree forbidding the arming of Panamanian merchant ships. In Washing ton Secretary of State Cordell Hull foot noted last fortnight's coup with a documented statement proving that the U.S. had not put so much as its little finger into Panama's political...
...coup that deposed U.S.-educated,* U.S.-hating Dr. Arias was the almost inevitable result of President Arias' own nationalistic pipedreams. The coup had been simmering for weeks...
Thyssen's first contribution was indirect -about 100,000 gold marks to Ludendorff for a Hitler-Ludendorff coup against the Communist Government of Saxony. (It did not come off, but turned into the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.) In 1928 Rudolf Hess went to Thyssen and told him the Nazis were hard put to pay for the Brown House they had bought in Munich. Thyssen arranged a loan through the banks. Only a small part of it was ever paid by the Nazis; Thyssen paid the rest himself. Hermann Goring wanted to enlarge his apartment "to cut a better...
...know any of the events leading up to this, but I know my uncle did leave the country Tuesday morning, two days before his cabinet appointees took over the government in the coup d'etat yesterday," he said. "He and my father, who was President from 1932 to 1936, have disagreed on many points since his election last year, but I am glad to hear he is safe. After all, he is my uncle...
Some Argentine observers thought they saw connections between the Chamber deadlock and the coup. Radical Deputy Eduardo Teisaire even accused Acting President Castillo himself of having been one of the plotters. One thing at least seemed certain: Acting President Castillo had been in a position where an attempted coup, or any other excuse to adopt a strong-arm policy, could not have been altogether unwelcome...