Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never quite recovered from reparations days, when France and Belgium pinched the best of its equipment, German State Railways was in critical condition when Germany annexed Austria and threw on its back the burden of the dilapidated Austrian Federal Railways. On some of the hopelessly debt-burdened Austrian lines wood-burners were still being used...
...Liberty bond to post for his freedom. After long proceedings, delayed by the Communist Party's interpolating that it did not now advocate overthrowing the U. S. Government, and by Poland's protesting that it did not want Joe because he was originally Austrian (the village of his birth was obliterated by the World War), a warrant for his deportation which had been issued in August 1934 became effective as of January 1937. Joe hired a lawyer to appeal his case in U. S. Circuit Court at St. Louis. That lawyer drank up his expense money and filed...
Austria was the subject of an address last night to the Verein Turmwachter by Kurz Herzfeld, Austrian refugee...
Jeremiah (by Stefan Zweig; produced by The Theatre Guild). Biblical narratives have a way of being made into "plays" and coming out Biblical narratives. Jeremiah illustrates the jinx. When Zweig wrote it, as an Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had tremendous timeliness. It might have tremendous usefulness today if it could be produced in Fascist countries. But simply as a play it is ponderous, labored, rhetorical. For the glow of Biblical diction it substitutes "Whither away?" and other pidgin Elizabethan. For the intensity of an ancient people, it substitutes stage...
...German Reichstag, its membership now swollen to 855 members by the addition of Ostmark (Austrian) and Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...