Word: dollfuss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little weight with the others. Well, he does. But not enough. Not enough, for example, to justify calling me every other night around one in the morning to tell me what he expects of Charles [the candidate], on the basis of his own keen analysis of Austria before Dollfuss. The hours I've spent listening to that chucklehead outline a strategy which would be just swell if only Consolo [the incumbent governor] were Franz Josef!...I'd rather spend my time chewing the fat with One-Eyed Danny Geegan of the Police Athletic League. At least I'm sure...
...Defense Ministry official said that Beer's name does not appear on the roster of former students at Wiener Neustadt. Beer's vaunted military heroism also faded: veterans of the Socialist Schutzbund (militia), who had defended their Vienna homes for a bloody four days in 1934 against Dollfuss' semi-fascist regime, denied that Beer had fought beside them, nor could any record be found to support his claim that he commanded a Loyalist battalion during the Spanish Civil War. Beer's cultural past vanished as quickly. He had not worked as assistant stage manager at Vienna...