Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something not always done now, II Duce last week troubled himself more about the dusky races on both sides of the Red Sea who insist on payment in the broad silver Maria Theresa dollars. These thalers are nothing but disks of silver struck in Vienna with the likeness of Austria's long dead Empress.* Silver collected from Italians last week and minted into Maria Theresa dollars was impressed with Maria Theresa's death date, 1780, only date considered any good by Ethiopian chiefs whom Signor Mussolini expects to bribe to desert their Emperor, as well as by Arab...
Crash! The motor car of the Chancellor of Austria and Frau Schuschnigg hurtled into a tree near Linz last week. She was instantly killed, her neck broken. He was flung on soft earth, missing a kilometer stone by a finger's length. The portly Schuschnigg nurse rolled over & over, clutching safely to her breast the Chancellor's 9-year-old son Kurt...
...just the right size to sit beside a cherubim. Last week the Austrian Government of deeply pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg cast up their eyes to Heaven and declared they were taking a momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings ($9,510,000) worth of worldly goods to Archduke Otto, the young Austrian pretender who heads the House of Habsburg, sometime Holy Roman Emperors...
...again. From Vienna a member of the Government rushed post haste to Castle Steenockerzeel in Belgium, the retreat of exiled "Kaiser Otto." All the Government asked of "His Majesty" was that he should behave with procrastination and discretion. Would he please be so discreet as not to return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about to hand him 63,000 acres in eight districts of Austria, real estate in Vienna which in normal times yielded some $50,000 a year, the Mannersdorf Dairies which sell 4˝ million litres of milk annually...
Died. Leopold Woelfling, 66, onetime Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Colonel of the Imperial & Royal Army of Austria-Hungary; of apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...