Word: putsch
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...than the demagogical charm that caused a swoon ing woman to cry, "We want sons by Perón." More intelligent than his fellow militarists and politicians, he had noted the cracks in Argentina's feudal structure, turned them to his own ends. His method - the Putsch, suppression of civil liberties, apparent social benefits to the under privileged - was fascist. He had stirred up in the Argentine masses both hope and unrest that would not soon be stilled...
...intimate collaborator with the Sicherheitsdienst (a combination intelligence, espionage and sabotage service) officials and received an annual greasing of 20,000 Reichsmarks from the German Foreign Office. The conspiracy, in which Peron & Co. took active parts, was aimed at the overthrow of the Bolivian government, where a pro-axis Putsch was indeed brought off in December...
...Buenos Aires rumor was right, the election might never come off, Strong Man Candidate Juan Domingo Perón might be planning a Putsch. The reasons: 1) bickering in his own camp (a fortnight before election his backers still could not agree on minor candidates); 2) the well-mobilized organization that turned out 150,000 enthusiasts in Buenos Aires last week to cheer the Democratic Union's Candidate Jose P. Tamborini...
...presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind of setup [as Vienna], isn't it?") and, as director, imports famed Moviemaker Friedrich Bergmann, who is forced to take...
Slowly the Party extended its connections among financiers, industrialists and Government men. For Hitler had learned one lesson from the Beer Hall Putsch: legal, not violent, revolution was the strategy for Germany...