Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Edna Hoyt Warburton Lord, Manhattan socialite, for the third time; and Roderick Tower, son of the late U. S. Ambassador to Russia and Minister to Austria, Charlemagne Tower, for the second time; in Paris...
Giovanni Pertinax Morosini was born in Venice nearly 100 years ago when the city belonged to Austria. Who his parents were the record does not say, but he always liked to believe that he was descended from the magnificent Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-94), Commander-in-chief of the Venetian Navy...
...shown by the mahdi the head of Gordon, obtained after the fall of Khartum. At the beginning of the World War, still an Austrian citizen, he was British Inspector General of the Sudan, honorary British Major General. Egyptian Lieutenant General. He returned to Austria but refused to fight the English. served instead in the Austrian Red Cross and as a member of the Austrian peace delegation at St. Germain...
...Credit-Anstalt fur Handel und Gewerbe, the name of which will play an important part in all financial histories of the present era. Formed by imperial decree in 1855, this Rothschild bank became the most important commercial house in southeastern Europe. When a run began on it last year. Austria tried to aid it, bringing on a crisis which spread to Germany where London banks became involved. The crisis became international and over half of the world was forced off the gold standard. Seneca to Bethlehem. Bethlehem Steel Corp., second biggest, is weak as a producer of sheet steel...
...Communist parties have vital organizations, outside of Russia, only in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia, and those organizations are to be explained by particular conditions. In Switzerland, Austria, and the democratic countries of Northern Europe with strong Socialist parties, Communism has never gained a significant foothold...