Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they searched the house at Linz of Theodore Habicht, whom Hitler had blandly appointed Nazi "Inspector General for Austria." Fumed Herr Habicht: "Balkan methods!" and asked Hitler to make his house a German consulate. As such it would be extraterritorial, outside the jurisdiction of Austrian police. And Habicht made Dollfuss fume by charging that he had "begged" for an alliance with the Nazis for the autumn elections...
Chancellor Dollfuss claims for publication that Austria can be entirely self-suffi-cient. An able economist, he does not believe it possible at present. Last week sorely needed help was on the way from two quarters. Loan negotiations were being concluded simultaneously in Rome and Paris to make available to Chancellor Dollfuss the Italian and French shares of the $43,000,000 international loan pledged at Lausanne last July...
Last week Chancellor Dollfuss and his Minister of Justice Kurt Schuschnigg journeyed to Rome, were separately received by Pope Pius. Following their audiences came word that a new Austro-Vatican concordat had been signed, providing that 1) Bishops must be approved by the Austrian Government; 2) Religious marriages will be recognized by the Government as legal; 3) Doctrinal education will be entrusted to the church...
...Affectionate Viennese nickname combining Millimeter and Metternich-Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince Metternich-Winneburg, Austria's great 19th Century Chancellor. A current Vienna cracker last week was that a new issue of stamps will show Dollfuss' picture, lifesize. Dollfuss has made it known that he enjoys jokes about his size...
...solemnly to St. Peter's. On one platform were kinsmen of St. Andrè, a nun who said her life had been saved through his intercession, and representatives of the Daughters of the Holy Cross. On another were President Eamon de Valera of Irish Free State, Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria, Princesses Germaine of Habsburg-Lorraine and Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parme. The Pope assumed the Papal throne. A Cardinal and two other prelates approached, knelt, begged thrice that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then...