Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime intrepid Herr Schuschnigg himself presided at a conference of Austrian police authorities. Present was Interior Minister Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the only Nazi yet forced by the Führer into the Austrian Cabinet. Silent, embarrassed, sat Dr. Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor Schuschnigg ordered the police of Austria to continue the bans against: shouting "Heil Hitler!," appearing in brownshirt Nazi uniform, or holding any sort of political meeting in Austria except those of his Fatherland Front (to which Nazis are now admitted...
Vienna is probably not over 20% Nazi, but in the rural provinces Austrian Nazis run up to as high as 80%. In Graz, the chief city of Lower Austria, adjoining Hungary, the Nazi flag was hoisted above the town hall last week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds...
German newspapers gave less than usual encouragement last week to Austrian Nazis, but many Austrians feared this as an ominous lull before a bloody storm. Men pointed out that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give...
...green suit in their waking moments. From Vienna, via London, had come a new 65-card, five-suit bridge deck,* the added 13-card suit dubbed "royals" and embossed with a green emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while the Duke of Kent looked on. Remarked the Duke, setting the test for future...
...Austrian father and a Hungarian mother, a girl baby was born 46 years ago in Bridgeport, Conn. As she learned to talk and experiment with things, little Bessie Pastor showed herself to be a bright child. In high school she diligently studied chemistry, later went to a technical school. To her girl friends she passed out soaps and lotions, the products of her own test tubes...