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Word: austria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba, William H. Hornibrook (onetime Minister to Iran) to be Minister to Costa Rica, Ferdinand L. Mayer (Counselor of Embassy in Berlin) to be Minister to Haiti, Leland Harrison (Minister to Rumania) to be Minister to Switzerland, Hugh R. Wilson (Minister to Switzerland) and George S. Messersmith (Minister to Austria) to be Assistant Secretaries of State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Plague, Dunces, Du Ponts | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Later that night a telephone jangled far away at Castle Wasserloenburg in Austria with "London calling.'' When the words of the Garter King of Arms had been repeated to Edward of Windsor he exploded: "What a rotten story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Queen Mary's Wishes | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Queen's Necklace | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

This ceremonial visit served as an excellent curtain for a tremendous amount of dickering with European bigwigs. Swinging through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Italy, France and Belgium, Dr. Kung was everywhere given the sort of excessively cordial reception he loves. This was because China's credit is better now than it has been for years and because Europe, notably Germany, desperately needs a market for exports. China's credit is currently high because Dr. Kung has begun to make good on a number of defaulted foreign loans, promises to take care of them all. Hitler, Göring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kung's Credits | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Democratic machine or Labor. To swing to the liberal wing of politics, a son of wealth has to be endowed with a considerable fund of convictions. George Earle's convictions on civil liberty, against tyranny of any kind, were demonstrated during his two years as Minister to Austria. There he was so little able to conceal his dislike of Hitlerism that Nazis made threats to blow up the U. S. legation. A dictatorship of the proletariat is equally abhorrent to him and his sympathies were with the late Chancellor Dollfuss, an idol of his even when Dollfuss spilled buckets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Labor Governor | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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