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...persuasive Austrian accents, came suggestions to saboteurs: wreck your railways and destroy your roads; Hitler needs them to maintain his fronts in Italy and Yugoslavia, to get his food from Hungary and his oil from Rumania. Almost at once there were reports of breaks in the line from Graz to Klagenfurt in the southeast...
...left his professorship at University of Berlin in 1933 for four years at Oxford, thence went to Graz in Austria, finally to Dublin...
Schorr first appeared as Wotan when he was 23, in the provincial opera house in Graz, Austria. Son of a well-to-do Jewish cantor, he grew up in Vienna, where he studied law, earned his singing lessons by tutoring in Latin and Greek. His career really began to move in 1923, when he was stranded in the U.S. with a troupe of Wagnerian barnstormers. The managers failed to make good their $75,000 guarantee, but Schorr went on to the Metropolitan...
...were Czecho-Slovakia's. From both of them Germany got an annual supply of nearly 4,000,000 tons of iron ore (a third of her own production). In the event that Germany should be bombed out of the Ruhr, Austria's iron and steel industry at Graz, CzechoSlovakia's well-developed heavy industry near Prague (including the mighty Skoda munitions works at Pilsen) will be important...
Married. Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, 45; and Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky, 28; in Graz, Austria. Because of the war they canceled their wedding trip to Italy...