Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna suburb. An anonymous threat of assassination if the marriage took place had been received. Even last week this fear hung over the long-thwarted lovers. Paradoxically both are immensely rich, envied by people who do not understand their years of trial. Princess Elsa is the daughter of an Austrian coal tycoon. Prince Franz is supposed to have inherited nearly a hundred million dollars-not to mention the ancestral Liechtenstein Art Gallery in Vienna, famed as "the most valuable private collection in Europe." Last week, with nothing to conceal for the first time in at least a generation, Prince Franz...
...rock just outside of Linz is feudal Schloss Waxenberg, subject of Linz's most popular post cards, hereditary fief of proud Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg. Linz's industrial population is heartily Socialist. Prince Ernst, lord of Schloss Waxenberg, is loudly, violently Royalist. Unlike most Austrian princes he is still rich. Despite the cordial hatred of Linz factory workers, he is treated with the greatest deference and respect by Linz's old inhabitants, Linz's municipal authorities...
...months, like bad-tempered mice before a large and dignified cat, Linz Socialists have been watching Prince Ernst, eager to catch him in a definitely illegal action. Weeks ago they complained that Prince Ernst was not only commandant of the Upper Austrian Heimwehr, Austria's secret reactionary military organization, but had been equipping Heimwehr troops at his own expense, drilling them on the grounds of his castle, just as his ancestors drilled and equipped their henchmen. Complacent Linz police saw no reason to interfere. Prince Ernst might be drilling, they said, but he was breaking...
Died. Baron Karl Auer von Welsbach, 72, famed Austrian scientist and inventor (Welsbach gas mantle); at his castle in Corinthia...
...north coast is Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transposes Aereos, commonly called SCADTA. Head of SCADTA is redoubtable Dr. Peter P. von Bauer, an Austrian who has become a Colombian citizen. He is the aeronautical yes-no man of the country. Whoever wishes to touch Colombia with aviation lines must man fully deal with him. Pan-American traded rights with him in order to complete its Caribbean line from Panama to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He demanded and received the right to run SCADTA planes from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Panama...