Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That he worked his way across the Atlantic as a freight and coal carrier, and then stepped ashore with diamonds on his hands was emphatically denied by Dr. Franz Von Oy, German student at the University, when shown the newspaper accounts of his trip to this country...
...withdrawal means a realignment within the Centre Party. Some of his personal following will doubtless go with him leftwards. The rest of the party will probably congregate about Franz von Papen (onetime German military attache at Washington) who has been gaining influence in the conservative wing of the party...
...Mergentheim in Wurttemburg, Germany, a man of 73, busily at work writing the fifth volume of his memories sank beneath the pale hand of anaemia and last week he died. So passed Count Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf...
...Staff and a leader of the pre-War military party. He was especially strong in anti-Italian sentiment. Whenever he commanded in the border provinces near Italy he distinguished himself by his severity in dealing with any manifestation of Italian nationalism. According to his own account he urged Emperor Franz Josef to make war on Serbia in 1906, again in 1909, again in 1912, again in 1913. In 1914 he succeeded. Twice he was removed from his post because he went too far, but his good friend Archduke Francis Ferdinand succeeded in having him reinstated...
Died. Field Marshal Baron Franz Konrad von Hoetzendorf, 73, Chief of the Imperial Austrian Staff in the War in Wurttemberg, or anaemia (see AUSTRIA, Page...