Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week New York State's Board of Medical Examiners, one of the strictest in the land, shut New York's door tighter than ever. Only schools whose graduates have any chance to be examined in New York are the governmental medical schools of Austria, Germany, Holland, Hungary, the Scandinavian countries, England, Ireland and Scotland...
Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, well-known American poet; Josef Alois Schumpeter, formerly finance minister of Austria; Wilhelm Kohler, a noted authority on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages; and Pierre Caron, chief of the section of modern history in the French national archives, head the list of distinguished visitors who will occupy professorships at Harvard during the coming year...
Contented subjects of His Serene Highness Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, beamed last week at news that he had purchased for $1,000,000 a private estate in Austria approximately half the size of Liechtenstein (area...
Strictly speaking, His Serene Highness' action was to accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...
...expect a proportionate increase. But there is not room now for all medical aspirants. Canada's 2,448 students last year included 308 U. S. citizens. The U. S. medical overflow sent 339 U. S. students and their fees into Great Britain (Scotland was very hospitable), 188 into Austria (a 50% increase over the previous year), 155 into Italy (100% increase), 183 into Germany (150% increase), 214 into Switzerland (230% increase). The American Medical Association, which keeps close tab on the situation, in its Journal last week printed the current picture...