Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Styrian Alps in Austria, lightning struck a woman wearing a gold necklace, melted the necklace, gave the woman a slight shock...
...Tristan bit was followed three days later by an hour-and-a quarter program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short...
...kept Hungary from Communism, weathered the franc-forging scandal which embroiled many of the country's leading personages (TIME, Jan. 18, 1926 et seq.), kept France and her Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) at bay; made an alliance with Dictator Mussolini, signed treaties of friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation was the immediate crisis. His troubles started more than a year ago when he limited the open ballot districts of Hungary from...
...Only 65 sq. mi. in area, Liechtenstein is one of Europe's tiniest independent states. It is situated between Switzerland and Austria, has a population of 11,500, no army. Present ruler of Liechtenstein is Prince Franz, 77. Two years ago Prince Franz married Frau Elsa von Eross, née Baroness Guttman of Vienna. He had married her secretly in 1921 in Salzburg, Austria. Because she was a commoner he could not make public the marriage. She is wealthy, of Jewish descent...
Married. Princess Ileana of Rumania, 22, daughter of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, second eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg, aviator, onetime employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in the palace of Pelesch, Sinaia, Rumania. Girl & Boy Scouts held the bride's train. Dowager Queen Marie wept immoderately. In the middle of the ceremony one of the tall candles fell off the altar, a brown butterfly fluttered over the bride's head. These were considered ill omens...