Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...explanation. Somewhat fussed, he retired to the quiet of his office, prepared a supplementary statement to prove his point. He cited the 1923 declaration of Charles Evans Hughes, then Secretary of State, to the effect that the U. S. would recognize no Central American government inaugurated by a coup d'etat. He elaborately explained that South American governments are in a different category, having no treaty among themselves (as in Central America) governing recognition of revolutionary regimes. Days before the recognitions were granted, Citizen Calvin Coolidge in his daily syndicated article baldly and prophetically summarized: "It is well known...
...Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces, and were threatening to court martial, perhaps execute him. While President Hoover and Statesman Stimson decided nothing definitely, it was gathered that if Grow were freed the U. S. would devise some diplomatic formula which would construe the Cerro coup as constitutional within the terms of the Hughes doctrine...
Senator Allen was away from Kansas at the time, touring the globe as professor of journalism with the University Afloat (TIME, Sept. 27, 1926 et seq). He got word in Berlin of the Murdocks' coup. He rushed home, tried to fight the Eagle with its own weapons, made no headway. In the spring of 1928 came the Levands, reputedly through the efforts of a wealthy Wichitan whom the Murdocks' Eagle had offended...
Instead the new Prime Minister hastily drafted and King Fuad signed a decree constituting a second coup, dissolving Parliament until next November, creating a dictatorship ad interim. The bill King Fuad had previously refused to sign would have made it a crime to govern Egypt thus by decree, would have rendered the new Prime Minister and members of his cabinet liable as criminals to crushing fines and life imprisonment. Last week though cowed into discretion by the imminence of British guns, Nahas Pasha embarked upon a bold, quasi-revolutionary course...
...does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored...