Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Sugar Co. For 20 years he was one of the best polo players on Philadelphia's sporting Main Line. His grandfather presided at the first Republican National Convention, but Mr. Earle was early on the Roosevelt Bandwagon. For his campaign efforts the President made him Minister to Austria, a post he resigned last March to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Last week he promised, if elected, to "go to Washington and borrow the well-known Roosevelt big stick" and crush "invisible government by lobbies" at Harrisburg. Mr. Earle's chief Democratic opponent is Charles D. Copeland...
...over to the traditional military display in the Red Square, reviewed by Dictator Stalin and War Commissar Klimentiy Voroshilov. The second day was a thoroughgoing bourgeois fiesta. Buildings were strung with electric lights, loudspeakers blared dance music in the streets, truckloads of actors gave free shows in the squares. Austria. Shrewd Chancellor Dollfuss chose the Socialist holiday to proclaim Austria's long-brewing corporative Constitution. That Viennese children should always remember it happily. 50,000 schoolchildren were marched to the gigantic stadium in the Prater to see an elaborate theatrical pageant. Elsewhere Austria was not quite so peaceful. Nazi...
Separated. Mrs. Clendenin J. Ryan Jr. (former Countess Marie-Anne-Paule-Ferdinandine-von-Wurmbrand-Stuppach of Austria); from Clendenin J. Ryan Jr., grandson of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan; after a two-month marriage; in Manhattan. Reasons: undisclosed...
...Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled dwarfs, who are usually misshapen or deformed. Usually born normal, and of normal parents, midgets invariably produce normal children. Though many of the earth's 2,000 living midgets come from Austria, Hungary and Germany, about one-sixth of them are natives of the U. S. Midgets do not always marry each other; sometimes exercise a strange fascination over normal adults of the opposite sex. With lusty appetites, they eat and drink as much as men twice their height, thrice their weight...
...needed guarantee. At an expensive opera ball staged to represent the Court at Fontainebleau in the reign of Louis XV, Soprano Lucrezia Bori came out as Mlle Cleophile de L'Opera, curtsied to such royal impersonators as sleek Artist Boutet de Monvel (King Louis) and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Austria's Maria Theresa), dramatically declared that the Metropolitan was saved...