Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graz, Styria, Austria, one Johann Fuchs, accused of killing a woman of whose child he was the father, came to trial at 9 a. m. in one of the Austrian emergency courts originally established in 1934 to combat political terrorism, pleaded guilty, was sentenced at 11 a. m., was executed...
Vacationing Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the U. S. President, went fishing in the Haldensee, near Innsbruck, Austria. She landed a 2½-lb. pickerel. Related Mrs. Roosevelt: "He jumped from the water once and seemed to give me a challenging look...
Back at their hotel they gave orders for their bags to be packed, set out next morning for Wasserloenburg Castle, Austria. They were looking forward to a rare treat, a visit from the Duke & Duchess of Kent who had been vacationing in Poland. This would be the first time that the ex-King had had a visit from a member of the Royal Family since his marriage...
Yiddish Theatre, Like many other Jews who have reached artistic eminence, Muni developed his art in close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal...
...Egypt then became a province of the Roman Empire until 641 A.D. when it fell to the Mohammedan Empire. In 1914 the British Empire's War Office issued this proclamation: "In view of the state of war arising out of the action of Turkey [in joining Germany and Austria against Britain, France, Belgium and Russia] Egypt is placed under the protection of His Majesty [King George V] and will henceforth constitute a British Protectorate. The suzerainty of Turkey over Egypt is thus terminated." After the War the British puppetized on the throne of Egypt as "Sultan" the father...