Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into the fourth automobile and the line moved forward. It happened then almost exactly as it had happened to Franz Ferdinand of Austria on a hot July day in 1914 in Alexander's Serbia. Quick as a squirrel a nondescript youth ducked under the police line, leaped to the running board of the royal car. His pistol was scarcely an arm's length from the King...
When the time came last spring for Harvardman Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl to contribute toward the gift which every Harvard class makes to its Alma Mater at its 25th reunion, Adolf Hitler's rollicking piano player and shrewd Foreign Press Chief decided to make no anonymous gift. Instead he wrote to Harvard's president...
...spirited suit for divorce last week, grizzled old General Josef Karel, once aide-de-camp to Emperor Franz Josef, denounced his wife for something new in the annals of Austrian jurisprudence: political infidelity...
Devout Catholics, the King, Queen and Princess were greeted by that blackest of blacks, Zita, widow of His Apostolic Majesty the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary who reigned for two years as successor to Franz Josef, died deposed and broken-hearted at Funchal, Madeira. Last week Zita's well-trained Habsburg retainers did meticulous royal honors to the sovereigns of Italy, who behaved in every way as if their hostess were still an Em press. Getting down to brass tacks with royal directness, they proceeded to dicker, with Princess Maria sitting in, over whether Maria should marry Zita...
Another change was to restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...