Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austria-Hungary after the Compromise: The Liberal Phase," Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Austria-Hungary after the Compromise: The Liberal Phase," Professor Langer, Harvard...
Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...
Other speakers (to the never more than half full Congress hall) were those of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Jugoslavia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Turkey, Switzerland, Uruguay...
Died. Friedrich August III, 66, onetime gay king of Saxony; of heart disease; in his castle, Sibyllenort, near Breslau, Silesia. Unconventional, Catholic, he was popular with his Protestant subjects. While he was crown prince, his wife, onetime Archduchess of Austria, eloped with the French tutor of his royal children. When the German Republic was proclaimed in 1918, he was asked by telephone whether he would abdicate willingly. Said he: "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better." Several years later, cheered by a crowd in a railroad station, he stuck his head out the window and shouted...