Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures in the current show were made in the Austrian Tyrol and in Maine and they embrace a broad variety of subjects. Among the more striking landscapes is a magnificent shot of a verdant Alpine valley under the shadow of a towering mountain head wall. Especially illustrative of the delicacy of Dr. Porter's technique are the flower studies including a translucently vivid composition of dogwood branches and flowers and a superbly detailed picture of a single rose. Perhaps the most interesting subject content is offered by the pictures of a Tyrolean mountain church yard and an excitingly beautiful picture...
...popped over the Alps. In Rome they attended military reviews, later closeted themselves for hours with Il Duce. What was said privately between Mussolini and his small allies is yet to be told, but it was pretty well indicated last week when bespectacled Chancellor Schuschnigg stood up in the Austrian Diet to demand a new law breaking once more the Treaty of Saint Germain, restoring compulsory military service to Austria...
...Austrians are not militarists," he said in a flat voice. "Austria has been exemplary in her loyalty to treaty obligations. . . . But she must clear away barriers in the way of self-preservation." The conscription bill passed unanimously, with excited deputies standing up on their chairs to cheer. All that the bill actually stipulated was: "Any Austrian may be called upon to serve the Fatherland, with or without arms, according to his physical and spiritual capacity." What the bill evidently meant was that some 1,500,000 men aged 18 to 42 were made eligible to conscription either in labor battalions...
...member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under fierce enemy fire he succeeded in cutting an Austrian barbed wire entanglement and led a storming party to the capture of an important ridge position. By this deed he not only gained the highest military order of his country but a claim to be one of those to represent Rumania at the funeral of the King of England. Also...
...film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader Karl Schafer, who made the Austrian swimming team in 1928, took the men's title. Blonde Sonja Henie of Oslo won the women's championship...