Word: putsch
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...Putsch!" Seventeen times during one night last week Berlin policemen rapped thunderously upon the doors of prominent Monarchists, burst in when they were not instantly admitted, ransacked...
Documents and other evidence thus collected enabled the Polizei to announce proudly that they had nipped a most elaborate Monarchist Putsch. "Exhibit A" was a large autographed portrait of Wilhelm of Doorn, with a note of glowing encouragement attached...
Forewarned of the police raids, all but one of the important Putsch plotters quietly "went abroad". Unlucky Colonel von Luck, head of the Olympic (Militarist) Athletic Club, was arrested, jailed...
Thus, there began at Budapest, last week, a trial as seemingly nonsensical as that of Alice in Wonderland: the trial of those Gargantuan Hungarians who counterfeited 30,000,000,000 French francs, allegedly with intent to finance a putsch which would overthrow the present Hungarian Regency* and seat a Habsburg again upon the Hungarian Throne. (TIME...
...arrested when the forgery was committed, were cited by him as proving his innocence as a forger, and the truth of his revelations as a spy, part of which he composed in the Brooklyn jail.) ; 8) Served as chief publicity agent for the famed Kapp putsch, which tried to restore the throne of Germany to the Hohenzollerns; 9) Arrested by the Italian police charged with complicity in the murder of the millionaire Socialist Deputy Matteotti (TIME June 23, 1924, et seq.); Escaped to Ceylon where he became a Buddhist and was known as "Dr. Tandler...