Word: hohenzollern
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...again. Remembering the family motto that a man may be down but never out as long as there is anything marriageable in sight the Archduke Albrecht has been paying court to the Italian Princess Giovanni and seems to be at least a Habsburg chin ahead of his Hohenzollern and Wittelbach competitors. That the family fortunes fully warrant this recourse to the final remedy is illustrated by the spectacles of the Empress of Mexico dying in Belgium and of the Empress of Austria living in Madiera...
...kingless-kingdom," the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, might be directed by Parliament to transfer the Crown to the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg who has a large Monarchist following. 2) This supposititious "King Albrecht of Hungary" might contract a marriage with Princess Ileana of Rumania. 3) Since the Hohenzollern dynasty which now rules over Rumania was elected to that eminence only 60 years ago, it is conceivable that the Rumanian Parliament might transfer the Rumanian Crown from the present Rumanian heir, five-year-old Prince Michel, to the vigorous and able proposed "King Albrecht," supposititious husband of Princess Ileana...
When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
...slung a brief case at Democrat Riedel. As Vice President Hugo Garnich of the Landtag rang for order, rulers, inkstands and books hurtled. Finally some 25 Communists charged the President's stand, wrested his bell away, doused Vice President Hugo Garnich with ink. The police being summoned, the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading...
When the Landtag again assembled to debate the bill, a phalanx of police guards protected the President and the Ministerial Bench. Vociferous but impotent the Communists introduced one obstructionist resolution after another. The Hohenzollern bill, finally debated amid groans and hisses, passed 258 to 37 with 65 abstentions...