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Pangalo's reliance on the old principle of chance is not without shrewdness. Even in America, state lotteries were the most popular of taxation until a puritanic court declared them illegal. Indeed, the Greek premier's clipping coup d'etat bids fair to place him in the Ponzi class of promoters...
...Semitism spent itself in a monster parade of Hackenkreutzer, and became, for the nonce, quiescent. It was widely believed that the rioting and demonstrations were not really directed against the Zionists, but were merely attempts to embarrass the present Austrian Government with a view to effecting a coup d'etat in favor of Chancellor Seipel, Catholic priest, former Premier...
...midinette). It was at Tarbes in Gascony, under the shade of the Pyrenees, at 10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 2, 1851, that the future generalissimo of the Entente Armies was born. It was two months before Prince Louis Napoleon made his famed coup d'etat...
Noel Marie Joseph Edouard, Marquis de Curieres de Castelnau, was born on Christmas Eve, 1851, the year of Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat. He was taught to be a good Catholic by the Jesuits and in the 18th year of his life entered the military academy...
...time of the seizure of the City, Marshal Tuan Chi-jui, prospective President of the Republic, was absent from Peking, as was the victorious General Chang, Super-Tuchun of Manchuria. The former, as shown by his attitude during the abortive Monarchist coup d'etat of 1917, is a loyal Republican ; but Chang is at heart a Monarchist. What would happen, therefore, when the latter heard of the happenings at Peking, not one Chinaman could tell another...