Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corporate statements. To this group of conservative, capable, quiet bankers in 1934 went John Daniel Hertz, Chicagoan who collects race horses rather than Madonnas, who is a businessman, not a banker, who has been unsuccessful in business only in his two attempts to retire from it. Born in Austria, arriving in the U. S. at 4, he grew up to write sports for a Chicago newspaper, manage prizefighters, pick losers at racetracks, lose his job when his paper went into a merger. Then he became an automobile salesman with his sporting friends his best customers. He entered the taxicab business...
...success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would bear no legitimate children. His intrigues became historically important when he helped finance the American Revolution. Although he was motivated primarily by hostility to England and a desire to defend French colonies, he committed the French...
...year, towering, small-mouthed Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg has blamed the murder of his little friend morally on hollow-eyed Major Emil ("Bloodhound") Fey, who was caught by the Nazis with Dullfuss but did nothing to save him. Last week these two potent men tugged two ways at Austria, under the distracted Chancellorship of disheartened Kurt Schuschnigg...
...Major Fey's private army, the Vienna Heimwehr, paraded in honor of Minister of Interior & Public Security Fey. Next day, with Prince von Starhemberg at his elbow, Chancellor Schuschnigg told Minister Fey. as he had often told him before, that all Austria's private armies must be consolidated as a militia. As usual, Major Fey refused. Thereupon, the Chancellor handed President Miklas the Cabinet's resignations. Called right back to form a new Cabinet, Herr Schuschnigg had his list ready. It omitted Major Fey & friends. When Fey saw loyal Starhemberg Heimwehr regiments filling Vienna streets, he knew...
...brain-collapse. Author Haskell admits Diaghilev's abnormalities but he maintains that Nijinsky was never well-balanced, that there was something strange about his sudden marriage to a girl with whom he had scarcely spoken. After his break with Diaghilev, Nijinsky suffered much. He was detained in Austria as a prisoner of war, until Diaghilev effected his release, invited him to join the Ballet for the U. S. season. Mine Nijinsky claims that Diaghilev encouraged the two religious maniacs who were responsible for Nijinsky's complete collapse. Author Haskell says that Diaghilev reprimanded the pair roundly, that...