Word: etat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself. A slim little woman with lively black eyes, an implacable fury when crossed, otherwise fond of argument, company and flowers, she effectively ruled China from 1861 when she was 27 until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor...
...which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better be set for a fascist coup d'etat, the unification of the State, and the subsequent elimination of the "internationalist disturbers"; the socialists and communists. The last riots on the boulevards were the preliminaries to a real bout. The parties involved have had a taste of direct action; they will be anxious to rectify their tactical mistakes...
...life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success a financial coup d'etat in the tobacco business...
...Sumner Welles to President Ramon Grau of Cuba before Mr. Welles returned to Washington (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week President Roosevelt recognized the five-day-old Cuban Government of the Island's new President that shrewd old politico Colonel Carlos Mendieta put in by a coup d'etat (TIME, Jan. 29). Straightway the Colonel cabled to Mr. Welles, now Assistant Secretary of State in Washington: "I am particularly grateful to Your Excellency . . . for your noble efforts . . . I am encouraged . . . because . . . I can count on your intelligent and weighty cooperation...
...business. These advantages are obvious; the hidden results of lowered productivity, inefficient bureaucratization of industry with no ideological myth as an incentive, exploitation of the proletariat and of the rentier by rising prices are obscured. Given this situation, an intelligently led Conservative Party could engineer a constitutional coup d'etat. Once involved in a tioup of industry and government, parliamentarism would have to be dispensed with, England would be fascist. TERTIUS...