Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph George Strecker, 50, born in Galicia (then Austria, now Poland), got to the U. S. in 1912 on a borrowed $300. He dug coal for six years in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois at War-boom wages. In 1917 he was not drafted for the army because he came from an enemy country. When he developed sciatica in 1918, he was affluent enough to retire to the baths at Hot Springs, Ark. for two years. In 1920 he turned waiter, soon owned his own restaurant in Hot Springs. He bought real estate and mortgages, had $6,000 when...
...office of Brooklyn's Council of Jewish Women was unveiled the only death mask extant of ex-Chancellor Engelbert Dolifuss of ex-Austria, smuggled out of the country by Exile Gregor Sebba, who effectively disguised it by modeling over it a mask of Beethoven...
...Professor is laid in an imaginary small country suggestive of Austria on the eve of Anschluss, Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of Munich. Professor A., greatest living authority on Sophocles, is a democrat who, in order to quell a riot of Fascist and Red students, reminds them that Socrates...
...Austria was the subject of an address last night to the Verein Turmwachter by Kurz Herzfeld, Austrian refugee...
...present recipients are Karl W. Deutsch, age 25, a refugee from the Sudeten area in Czechoslovakia, who received a doctor's degree in law and political science with high honors from Charles University, Prague, in 1938, and Kurt Herzfeld, age 20, a refugee from Austria, who studied a year at the University of Vienna. Both arrived in this country a few months ago. Deutsch will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, specializing in economics and political science, and Herzfeld will be an undergraduate in the College, specializing in economics...