Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor was born to the wife of an Austrian customs inspector on the German frontier of Austria in 1889. Shy, nervous and inclined to keep to himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
...Drive (A. L. Rule) shows the cinema as an instrument for recording history. It is a war picture compiled from newsreels and from films which the producer secured from the files of the U. S., British, French, Italian, German and Austrian Governments. Some of these are routine shots of German troops marching through Belgian villages, of ten-inch guns firing through underbrush, of U. S. troopships leaving their docks, of George V reviewing his soldiers...
...salary reductions. Associated with Mr. Hertz in his Paramount venture were the late William Wrigley Jr. and Albert Davis Lasher. Last week Mr. Hertz said he would spend the winter in Miami, then return to Chicago and the racing stables which produced Reigh Count and Anita Peabody. Austrian-born Mr. Hertz sold his school books when he was 11 and became a copy boy, then assistant sports editor on the Chicago Daily News. He managed pugilists before he became an automobile salesman, bought a lot of second-hand cars and started what became Yellow...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...
...Senate old General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer cried, quivering with emotion: "I cannot vote this bill!-considering that a fortnight ago we refused to pay America, and yet American soldiers fought admirably to defend our soil, as I can testify!" Unmoved, the Senate voted the Austrian loan 14440-68, after which Chamber & Senate adjourned...