Word: austro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Socialists, in turn, have publicly accused the People's Party of black schemes to permit the return of Otto Habsburg, pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and restore to him part of the family's nationalized fortunes. The Socialists have vehemently blocked Otto's reentry, to the vast relief of a great many Austrians who recall the empire with a vivid mixture of nostalgia and Angst. So powerful an issue is the long-dead monarchy that the campaign has even been enlivened by a Dusseldorf human-relations counselor, Dr. Theodor Rudolf Pachmann, who last month petitioned...
...tide really began to flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political repression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire-all fed the tide. It crested in the decade 1905-14, when more than 10,100,000 men, women and children poured into the U.S., most of them through the grim portals of New York Harbor's Ellis Island...
...thousands of students Langer will be remembered for the often terrifying, though never tedious. History 132 lectures, packed with Austro-Hungarian premiers, Balkan crises, and diplomatic notes...
Robert Goldman and Glenn Paxton, who four seasons ago adapted Pride and Prejudice into First Impressions, have completed an original musical, Hurrah, Boys, Hurrah! Austro-Hungarian soldiers, oddly enough, took part in the American Civil War, and the show centers around a Union soldier and the daughter of a Hungarian officer, garrisoned in St. Louis in 1861 (spring). Another original musical is A Girl to Remember, starring Carol Burnett as a Hollywood script girl in the '30s, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green...
...Seymour was well-acquainted with the politics of the Wilson era. As a young professor at Yale, he was named to the American peace commission in Paris in 1919. He served as chief of the Austro-Hungarian division, and was also a member of the delegation on Rumanian-Yugoslav territorial disputes...