Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...
...third-rate hotels but insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch him en route to the railroad station. Somewhere in his numerous locked brief cases Austria's insurance Napoleon kept a toothbrush and a stiff collar. He had no other baggage...
...central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining 17th Century Venice could not defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show...
...French were groaning and saying 'Mon Dieu! Mon Dieu!' and they were all green. Mamma and I stayed well." In Moscow the children went sightseeing. "We went in to see Lenin. He was dead six years but he didn't smell." After living in France, Austria, Germany and Russia the children started off for their first trip to the U. S. They stopped in London on the way were taken to Madame Tussaud's. "In the Chamber of Horrors we saw bloody figures and figures of ladies and gentlemen who .had killed people, and Mamma said...
...Austrians are not militarists," he said in a flat voice. "Austria has been exemplary in her loyalty to treaty obligations. . . . But she must clear away barriers in the way of self-preservation." The conscription bill passed unanimously, with excited deputies standing up on their chairs to cheer. All that the bill actually stipulated was: "Any Austrian may be called upon to serve the Fatherland, with or without arms, according to his physical and spiritual capacity." What the bill evidently meant was that some 1,500,000 men aged 18 to 42 were made eligible to conscription either in labor battalions...