Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franz Grillparzer," Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...
...Franz Grillparzer," Professor Burkhard, Gerinanic Museum...
...commemorating that titanic hero, Lajos (Louis) Kossuth (1802-94). For a day Manhattan rang with speeches fervently recalling how Kossuth proclaimed the independence of Hungary and became Dictator in 1848, only to see his fatherland reconquered within a twelve-month by Austro-Russian troops supporting the Austrian Boy-Emperor Franz Josef, then a stripling of 19. The fact that in 1851 Kossuth was brought to Manhattan on a U. S. man-of-war and honored as a supreme apostle of Liberty gave point to the dedication of last week...
Over the radio the National Broadcasting Company honored Franz Drdla, composer of such lush violin music as Souvenir, Serenade, Vision, Madrigal. Drdla is 60 now, eking out a meager living in Vienna by making tenpenny tunes...
...great and still flourishing statesman who dreamed a republic which came true has just set down his dream and much of his autobiography. Simultaneously has appeared a brilliant biography of the late Emperor Franz Josef out of whose realm the republic was dreamed. Both books have much merit...