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...Romantic General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger was the dominating figure in French politics in 1888-89. He fled before the Government could arrest him for a plotted royalist coup d'état. In 1891 he committed suicide on his mistress' tomb in Brussels...
...Coop de Tote." Hummon was not abashed. He got the legislators together for a pep talk, gave them a piece of oratory distinguished mainly by his unique pronunciation of coup d'état. Hummon made it "coop de tate." He went on the air to cry that radicals were plotting to "destroy the dominance of the white race in the South"-and to suggest that his followers mail in nickels and dimes to pay for the radio time he had used, a matter of $1,637.66. To demonstrate his innate kindliness he even got himself photographed giving a dollar...
...shanty-like servants' quarters. It has bamboo-fenced grounds, which were given over to neighborhood pigs, fowl and scabby babies. It had been occupied by the Japanese for eight years, and neglected for eight years. Consequently, it was in an absolutely revolting state of disrepair: no furniture, tat ami (raised floors) everywhere, brokendown plumbing and lighting, filth, filth and more filth...
Tired Business. The M.C., null Blanche, played straight man to Comic Pierre Cour. Cour, pince-nezed and Tat-tersall-vested, impersonated "Monsieur Albert," who poses in café society as a rich joyeux garçon-but fools nobody, because he has forgotten to remove his bombazine bookkeeper's sleeves. Monsieur Albert heckled guest stars, mispronounced their names-a bit of business that is just as tired in France...
...Communists had expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...