Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evidence seemed to indicate that this U. S.-controlled firm had backed the Austrian Nazis who assassinated Chancellor Dollfuss (TIME...
...Mussolini, scoffed at Otto as "a thick-headed young Habsburg who could not possibly under stand Fascism." But that was last year. Since then Otto has applied himself to a diligent study of Il Duce's "Corporative State," become glib in its specialized argot. Also the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss reminded Il Duce of the advantage of a Crown held by such a prolific dynasty as the Habsburgs...
...Vienna there was little or no sensation. Successive Austrian Governments have been headed for years and years by devout Roman Catholics who in their quiet way have done several things to foster the return of His Apostolic Majesty. Under Chancellor Dollfuss the word "republic"' was stricken from Austria's Constitution. So was the phrase "the country's laws emanate from the people." The Constitution now reads "the country's laws emanate from God" and the House of Habsburg has always ruled "by the grace...
...cartridges of the maneuvers, he was still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note...
...group of musicians decided to enlarge the Mozart festivals to include the works of other composers, converted the old Winter Riding School into the Festspielhaus, to seat 1,400. From its opening month ago with Bruno Walter conducting the Eroica funeral march in honor of murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, the Festival has sounded a steady crescendo of enthusiasm. The climax everyone wanted to hear arrived last week when Toscanini picked up his baton before the Vienna Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded...