Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentine Government last week squelched an attempted coup but it could not squelch a suspicion...
Suddenly news of the attempted coup swept Buenos Aires. Acting President Castillo sharply demanded legislative action. The National Democrats returned to the Chamber and the Radicals began considering and passing budget items...
...Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
From this great venture on hostile seas into strange diplomatic waters-this extraordinary Roosevelt coup, more dramatic than his cross-country flight in 1932 to address the Chicago Convention which first named him for the Presidency-Franklin Roosevelt returned. He returned not to wave his hat to a cheering crowd, but to face his White House press corps -including the men who usually defend him from all critics and laugh at his humor-this time hopping...
...After the Nazis had arrested several Bolivians in Germany in reprisal for Bolivia's prompt squashing of an attempted Nazi-led coup in Bolivia (TIME, July 28) Bolivia's Foreign Minister Alberto Ostria Gutierrez warned that his country could play the same game, that there were 5,000 German nationals in Bolivia...