Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death came last week at Spital to Austrian-born Adolf Hitler's maternal uncle Anton Schmidt. Austrian neighbors in Spital expected no condolences from the Realmleader. "Uncle Anton," they recalled, tried vainly for years to sponge on his illustrious but close-pursed nephew;. Finally he egged one of his sons to beg Cousin Adolf to send him $3 to buy a Nazi brown shirt. Replied the Realmleader: "Dear Cousin: You must buy your uniform with your own money. I am unable to accommodate...
...full million men, the greatest European army since 1919, moved last week at Benito Mussolini's orders, 500,000 on Italy's Austrian frontier, 300,000 training for action against Ethiopia, 200,000 already in Africa...
...swift-rushing River Salzach in the Austrian Tyrol lies Salzburg, rimmed on three sides by operatic-looking mountains. There Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born and there on a lake outside the town Max Reinhardt owns a baroque castle, where he long ago began giving sumptuous parties for his troupe and for such visitors as Arturo Toscanini, Feodor Chaliapin, Paul Drennan Cravath, Greta Garbo, Edward of Wales...
Married. Fritzi Burger, Austrian ice-skating champion; and Shinkiki Nishikawa, grandson of Japanese Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto; in Vienna...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...