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Word: franz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight Hitlerism in Austria rushed their several ways back to their assorted parties (TIME, Sept. 25). Heimwehr Leader Prince von Starhemberg shouted that unless the Chancellor's projected "Christian Corporative State" turned out to be 100% Fascist he and his followers would refuse to support it. Agrarian Leader Franz Winkler, defender of democracy, cried, "We are not going to fight Naziism, merely to help Austro-Fascism into the saddle!" The famed "Dollfuss Front" seemed to be breaking up like the Yukon in April. At this juncture the vest-pocket Chancellor went to Church last week and prayed some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: United Support | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

...front (six times as much active service as the average U. S. soldier saw), won himself a string of decorations and the edelweiss embroidered collar tabs, the capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant.* Considering his peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents, this promotion, in the extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef, was a notable achievement. For months at a time Lieut. Dollfuss and his men held a tiny valley in the Dolomites against the Italian advance. Natives near Trent still call it Dollfussthal (Dollfuss Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Eve of Renewal | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Winkler. President of the Agrarian League that put Chancellor Dollfuss in office is Vice Chancellor Franz Winkler, leader of the Dollfuss' peasant adherents. Dr. Winkler and his followers join with the Heimwehr in opposing Naziism and Socialism, but they fear a permanent Fascist dictatorship for a special reason. The Heimwehr is an aristocratic institution, backed by Austria's great landowners. Should Austria's incessant crises ever end the Agrarian League would make the rights of peasant landowners its chief plank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Eve of Renewal | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...Third choice was to furbish up the present "Austria Over All" coalition of the Christian Socialists, the Fascist Heimwehr and the Agrarian League with the half-hearted support of the Socialists. Last week Dollfuss met long & late with his Cabinet to make a choice. Within the Cabinet Vice-Chancellor Franz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: What a Conflict! | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks were set off with such complete disregard of the consequences that 50 people were rushed to hospitals, hundreds fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Hojer, Weber, Lessing | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

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