Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of neighbor states, that Steyr earns only minute profits, nearly all of which go to satisfy its major creditor, the Bank Boden-Credit-Anstalt. Blatantly last week the Socialist newsorgans of Vienna screeched that Boden-Credit-Anstalt "has its Capitalist foot on the neck" of Steyr and other Austrian manufacturing firms, charged that the bankers are keeping the businessmen down and starving the workers, because only in this way can they "keep money control of the Austrian State. . . . Austria, a people of slaves...
Startled at the presence of an Austrian Chancellor in Fascist Italy, the Chicago Tribune ("The World's Greatest Newspaper") headlined in the argot of gangland: ITALY GRABS UP AUSTRIA AS ALLY IN BALKAN RING...
...Serajevo. The letters of pure gold are deeply sunk in green marble. Pensively upon the stone broods the image of a frail young man. He proclaimed liberty by foully assassinating the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. But the World War which followed did liberate Serajevo from Austrian rule. Therefore to his people a foul assassin is a Hero (TIME...
Everything depends, of course, upon the point of view. Soon after his crime young Princip, whom the Austrian Imperial Prosecutor grimly called "too young to hang," was locked up under a sentence of "solitary confinement in a darkened cell for life." As was intended, he withered in the damp dark, died of consumption...
...turned to literature. His first book, under the pseudonym Louis Alexandre Cesar Bombet, was proved to be a plagiarism from one Carpani. From Henri's point of view, however his version was merely a brilliant condensation of a dull book. He was looked on with suspicion by the Austrian authorities in Italy, who thought he might be a Carbonaro, and finally was expelled from Milan. Later, when he had openly renounced his loyalty to Bonaparte and had been made consul at Trieste, suspicious Diplomat Metternich again forced his removal. He ended his days as consul of Civitavecchia, near Rome...