Word: tat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superintendent leading the B. E. F. nucleus, Walter W. Waters resigned his command. Infected by the parliamentary goings-on at Chicago, the idle veterans decided to hold a convention, elect a commander-in-chief. While this agitation was in the air, Commander Waters staged a coup d'état. He and his erstwhile "staff" drove out to muddy Anacostia in the Waters "official car." Mounting a shack, he harangued his audience into re-electing him commander by acclaim. Then he returned to B. E. F. headquarters on 11th Street, Southeast, posted sentries as a precaution against a counter coup...
...Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen (TIME, June 13). On July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize power by means fair or foul...
Siam has never had a Senate. Produced last week like a hat-born rabbit, the Senate was found to consist of 70 Siamese army officers, the same who last fortnight staged with His Majesty's approval their placid, bloodless coup d'état...
There being no hard feelings, the innumerable Siamese Princes arrested at the outset of the coup d'état were all set free last week-all except domineering Prince Paribatra whom it was thought best to keep locked up for a while...
Such was the biggest, best & boldest promise made last week by small, dapper Don Carlos Guillermo Davila whose recent coup d'ètat set up Chile's new Government (TIME, June...