Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of the Egyptian Agency (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, etc.) it says: "There Pharaoh oppressed and Candace reigned, where Herod wantoned and Moses died, where Muhammad fled and the Mahdi slew. ..." Against these backgrounds are painted the labors of the Holy Bible salesmen. One entered an Austrian circus, sold Gospels to Japanese, Italian and Arabic performers. Trying unsuccessfully to circulate in the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage last year (TIME, May 19, 1930), one R. H. Robinson sold a New Testament to a traffic policeman. At a cinema performance of Ben Hur at a fair in Mollet, Spain...
...Author. Joseph Roth's father was an Austrian, his mother a Russian Jewess. Because of what he now thinks "a ridiculous ambition" to better himself socially, Joseph went to the University of Vienna, left it after two years to go to War. His knowledge of Russian helped him to become an officer, a position he liked so much he decided to stay one. Revolution in Austria made him change his mind: he was glad to pick up odd jobs. Newspaper work for the Frankfurter Zeitung gave him leisure to write books. He has written eight: Job is his first bestseller...
...First thunderclap of the present crisis: collapse in Vienna of Kreditanstalt, colossal Rothschild bank, which is taken over by the Austrian Government, shaking confidence in related German banks...
...Prince Morrow, the late great Charles William Eliot of Harvard University and members of the American Federation for Sex Hygiene who in 1914 helped found the American Social Hygiene Association. Director today of the Association's Division of Educational Measures and Consultant is Dr. Max Joseph Exner. Austrian-born 60 years ago, Dr. Exner was at 19 an expert gymnast, took a Y. M. C. A. course in physical education, became physical education director at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.). Meanwhile he took college courses, studied medicine, took his M. D. degree in 1906. As director of sex education...
...beginning of the nineteenth century two earnest young men set out to write a book of poetry. The world stared back down the alley of the 1790's shivering. Napoleon was squinting in the sunlight as the nations stacked their guns before him. A handsome Austrian with a hooked nose sat devising a system founded upon those grievances against which Robespierre had hurled a reign of terror. The past lay in the burying ground of dead ideas. The present was a battlefield. There was no future...