Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monastery at Pernitz, Austria. A professor of moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine craft the bald, beak-nosed cleric put the Christian Socialists in command of the Austrian Republic, fortified his party rule with the Heimwehr (Home Guard). Austria was bankrupt. Chancellor Seipel visited in turn all the European capitals, making the nations believe that Austria planned alliance with one or another. His craftiness brought Austria an international loan, prevented civil war. He resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled...
Enemies of Thomas Bat'a called him a Wartime profiteer. Certainly the marching feet of Kaiser Franz Josef's men wore out millions of Bat'a shoes. After the feet ceased to march and the Austrian Empire collapsed Thomas Bat'a took his profits across the Atlantic, opened a shoe factory at Lynn, Mass, in 1922, learned all the tricks of Fordized technique. When the new Czechoslovakian Republic had been safely launched, Mr. Bat'a moved the machinery of his Lynn factory to Zlin...
...farther on. Almost exclusively from beer halls, famed restaurants and night clubs, does he survey the contemporary Central European scene. A characteristic vista: "I had dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy. I was alone, but at least three charming feminine creatures occupied the continuous lounge across the narrow room, and I watched them with discreet enjoyment and satisfaction. I was, it seemed, at last actually growing...
...GOOD SHEPHERD?John Rathbone Oliver?Stokes ($2). A revised reprint of a novel first published in 1917 under the pseudonym John Roland. An inspirational novel of how a U. S. doctor, in the Austrian Tyrol, modifies his own as well as other people's spots. One of the best medical tales ever written...
SPEARS AGAINST Us-Cecil Roberts -Appleton ($2.50). English best-seller about two families, one Austrian, one English. The War havocs them...