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...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...
Though the 289 Mayors steamed with wrath and sweated in the July heat, not a drop of perspiration stood forth upon the bald, pink cranium of Ignaz Seipel. Did they realize, he rapped sternly, that he had only just patched up the break in Austro-Italian relations which occurred when an Austrian mob stormed the Italian consulate at Innsbruck (TIME, June 4), resulting in the recall of the Italian Minister from Vienna. Were they conscious that not until last fortnight did Italian Minister Giacinto Auriti return to Vienna. Under the circumstances, and considering the relative potencies of militant Italy...
...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...