Word: austro-hungarian
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...sent him to the U. S. for a year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing...
...Vienna were published recently certain letters of the late Count Conrad von Hotzendorff, War-time Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian Army. They contain the assertion that in 1915 Great Britain offered to make peace with Germany, proposing among others the following terms...
Unique. Born 50 years ago in Vienna, young Ignaz Seipel became first a priest, and then a professor who mingled strangely political science with moral theology in such books as The Economic Teaching of the Fathers (1907). Later his writings upon statecraft in support of the Austro-Hungarian Empire won him the approval of the Habsburgs and during the World War, a cabinet post...
...While the matter waited, there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...