Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still handsome. Senora Brau-Soler had nearly severed his neck with a razor. Within an hour transatlantic cables were clicking, for Senora Brau-Soler's dead lover always insisted that his name was Prince Edgar de Bourbon d'Este, an illegitimate son of gentle old Franz Josef of Austria and the Princess Alice de Bourbon-Parme...
...Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately following the War. Famed for negotiating with...
...German Chancellery went bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler last week. He was led into the former office of the late great Bismarck. Seated at the Iron Chancellor's old desk, his soft white hands folded before him, sat aged President Paul von Hindenburg. Near him stood smooth, grey Chancellor Franz von Papen and the State Secretary of the Reich, Dr. Otto Meissner...
...business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over President von Hindenburg and set up his Junker "Cabinet of Monocles" under smartly groomed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, his military subordinate...
...five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew of three from his school. Students Franz Hack and Fritz Albrecht as mechanic and radioman made all three flights; this year Teacher Ghert von Roth replaced Student Eduard Zimmer as copilot. All flights were characterized by methodical planning, absence of publicity. The first crossing took nine days; last week's, five...