Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final indication of the mounting interest of Hungarians in the Monarchy was seen last week when the death mask of the Emperor Franz Josef, previously hawked without success among the numerous Austrian archdukes, was purchased for $2,000 by the Hungarian Archduke Friedrich. He, "Vater Friedrich" ("Papa Friedrich") is a genial bewhiskered man, the image of the Emperor whose death mask he purchased, would make "a good old-fashioned King" were he not too old to begin...
...Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor" may soon rule as King of Hungary and later become King of Rumania as well. Thus the Dual Empire of the Habsburgs, destroyed...
...given to the Albrechtist rumors last week when the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved the Hungarian Parliament immediately after it had passed a bill recreating the Hungarian House of Peers. When the new House of Peers assembles, the four Archdukes, Friedrich, Albrecht (his son), Josef and Franz (his son) will find themselves at its head in semi-royal state. The Archdukes, as the ranking peers of Hungary, will head a House composed of nobles; of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish prelates; of high dignitaries of state and rich bourgeoisie...
...While the matter waited, there waited also for inspection the superb Kaiserliche-Königliche Hofburg (Imperial and Royal Palace), the onetime residence of Franz-Josef, and all the now decadent chateaux and pleasure resorts of the former Austro-Hungarian nobility. The night sparkle of Vienna is gone but its substantial daylight glories remain...
...Franz Werfel, author of the Goat Song (TIME, Feb. 8), sees in Maximilian the representative of a humane, idealistic principle of government. He would, with kindness, mold superstitious peasants, renegades into a nation. Napoleonic ruthlessness he forbids. Opposed to him looms the sinister Juarez, man of implacable power, one who "has never had a dream." The native leader, never brought upon the stage, is constantly felt to be the spirit that directs deadly forces against the wavering royalist's policy. Betrayed, deserted, defeated by himself, Maximilian goes to his doom, a failure in living for his cause, but strong...