Word: braunau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events which almost nobody noticed in the midst of all these were the birth in Braunau, Austria, of a boy-child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George...
Adolf Hitler paused briefly to inspect the three-story building in one flat of which he was born at Braunau on the River Inn. A janitor of a school once attended by Hitler as a boy fired one shot, not at Hitler who was nowhere near, but over the heads of some Storm Troops. They took his gun, and flogged him. The mothers of three babies just born at Vienna were announced to have named each "Adolf." As Adolf approached the provincial capital at Linz, Austrian crowds were cheering everyone they could think of, even bellowing "Hell Ward Price!" since...
...close shaves are well known to connoisseurs of meteoritics. In 1827 a man was injured by a fall at Mhow, India. In 1836 cattle were reported killed by a meteoric shower in Brazil. In 1847 two iron meteorites totaling 85 Ib. plunged through the roof of a room in Braunau, Bohemia where three children were sleeping. In 1917 a 150-lb. stone fell within the town limits of Colby, Wis. In 1924 a 14- Ib. stone hit a Colorado highway a few feet behind a funeral procession. Last year in France a burning farmhouse in which three persons perished...
...Theodor Habicht's "radio ultimatum'' giving Austria eight days to accept a Nazi Government, the Heimwehr men were being sent to the border where 10,000 men of the famed Austrian Legion were supposed to be ready to invade the country through the narrow valley at Braunau-Adolf Hitler's birthplace. U. S. correspondents investigated privately, could find no signs of unusual activity on either side of the border. From Berlin they learned that Handsome Adolf himself had suppressed news of the Habicht ultimatum in Germany and was thinking of pensioning or retiring him from...
...correspondents are prone to make too much of the fact that Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, that he has never established his right to German citizenship. As a matter of fact Adolf Hitler was born just 62 mi. due east of Munich in the Austrian frontier town of Braunau and always considered himself more Bavarian than Austrian. Fascist Hitler discourages reference to his early life, not because there was anything shameful about it, but merely because it was not sufficiently romantic for Der Führer, the Leader of the Nazis. His father was a customs inspector. Young Adolf...