Word: austro-hungarian
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...royal but not regnant, he might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
...Hungary, a "Kingless Kingdom" ruled at present by His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. The question before Count Bethlen loomed as particularly opportune, because last week, the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, legitimate heir to the Throne, eldest son of the late Austro-Hungarian Emperor and King Karl, reached his age of majority...
...Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
Amid the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...
...remains in power. On a previous occasion the Croatian Deputies stayed away for five years after making a similar threat. Bitter and thrice bitter are Croatians against Serbs, whom they consider to have robbed them of even those rights which they possessed when Croatia formed part of the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian realm...