Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Socialist government of Vienna, Franz Josef's home, negatively celebrated his anniversary by decreeing that a cinema, specially produced for the occasion under the title The Emperor Franz Josef as Ruler and Man, was improper fare for Austrians under 16 years of age and "calculated to mislead the youth of the country." Austrian royalists had tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair...
...Captain Schonta, Wartime Austrian naval commander, a sizeable delegation of Austrian royalists traveled to the ancient Benedictine monastery of Tihany, Hungary, to dedicate there a new group of the 14 stations of the cross in memory of ex-Emperor Karl, Franz Josef's grandnephew and successor, who was arrested in Tihany Abbey in 1921 after his second unsuccessful attempt to regain the throne...
...0nly in 1867, 19 years after his Austrian succession was Franz Josef crowned King of Hungary as a result of his grudgingly granting constitutional government to the Magyars...
Leopold hung it over the great staircase at Schönbrunn where it remained, pride of the Habsburgs, until 1922 when it went to the Austrian State Museum. In 1925 it was sold to London tycoons to defray a deficit. Of it in the U. S. alone there are 2,000 copies...
...English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms. His life is literary, not political, yet active when the two conflict, for his was the leading test case under the rigorous Austrian muzzlelaw for critics. Works the U. S. may sometime read are: Prinzessin Anna (novel), Martin Overbeck (romance), Kinder u. Freude (drama...