Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize of the Foundation for 1932 to Walther Reinhardt, German Consul in Seattle, Wash., for his book George Washington, published in Frankfurt am Rhein. The object of the Strassburger Foundation is to further good relations between the U. S. and several European countries. It has branches in France, Germany, Austria and Hungary. Its French jury is composed of Andre Maurois, M. Francois-Poncet, French Ambassador to Berlin, and others. Annual prizes of $1,000 in these countries are awarded to authors and journalists who made the most meritorious contribution to the cause of friendship with the U. S. during...
Delegation heads from 13 countries were present, representing the United States, England, France, Germany, Cuba, Canada, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ireland, Sweden, Italy, and Abyssinia. Although Turkey, Japan, and China were not in attendance, they have been consulted and are in favor of the body. Wolfgang Magnus of Germany, chairman of the initial committee, also explained the methods which the league will use. Speeches by A. D. Cadman '34 who will be the English delegate, Ulrich Kersten gr.L of Germany, and R. F. L. W. de Visme 1G, representative of France, followed...
...artist father almost as soon as he could walk. In the U. S. he studied in the Art Students' League of New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He won the Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse...
...France and Germany should withdraw from Belgium and fight in their own territories. He re-reminded the President of "the quaint absurdity of a war waged formally between the German Kaiser, the German Tsar, the German King of the Belgians, the German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria." Shaw could see the absurdity of the War, could not see the absurdity of fighting witless circumstance with wit. For all his labors nothing but scandal ensued. Right down to the Treaty of Versailles, when Shaw pleaded for clemency towards Germany his utterances "had about as much effect...
...Austria-Hungary; the Conflict of Nationalities," Professor Langer, Harvard...