Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Egon Seefehlner had picked almost anyone but Socialist Deputy Berthold Koenig to bribe last week he would still have his job as General Director of Austria's Federal Railways; Italy's alliance with Hungary would be more effective; Hungary would soon have 50,000 rifles; Austrian railroads would be embarked on a profitable if illegal business; France and Britain would continue to believe that they had nipped an international plot...
Next day the whole Fascist Press lashed out with revelations of a secret note, jointly dispatched by the British and French Governments to Vienna on Feb. 11 and requiring the Austrian Government to return to Italy a shipment of 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns now being "repaired" at Hirtenberg in Austria and allegedly destined for Hungary by the Italian shippers...
...newsorgans of all sorts to chime in. "The French treat the Chancellor of Austria like a Negro chieftain!" stormed Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "Nobody protested," cried the Catholic Reichspost, "when in 1932 Czechoslovakia sent to Jugoslavia through Austria enough arms alone to equip several army corps!" Amid frenzied pother the Austrian Cabinet of Chancellor Dollfus tottered, and excited Europe scarcely had time to be alarmed last week by sly Dr. Benes' new Great Power...
Marie Antoinette had several popular nicknames, all indicative of her unpopularity. The first, ''The Austrian," was founded strictly on fact. Fifteenth and next-to-last child of Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. Marie Antoinette was condemned by her scheming mother, by the diplomatic system of Europe, to be a political pawn. Married off young to the French Dauphin, lethargic Louis XVI ("whose greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation...
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky, 31, sister of Vincent Astor, divorced wife of Prince Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky (of Russia's oldest noble family); and Raimund von Hofmannsthal, 26, Austrian writer, son of Richard Strauss's late librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal; secretly; in Newark...