Word: innsbruck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole city of The Hague bedlam, the wedding procession wound its way amid Dutch ohs and ahs at the brilliant cavalcade. Then, after luncheon at the Royal Palace, the Prince Consort & Crown Princess managed the impossible. With the connivance of the world press, the newlyweds, ostensibly bound for Innsbruck, boarded a train at The Hague and entirely disappeared. Even the New York Times, ordinarily intolerant of mysteries, headlined benignly, "JULIANA AND PRINCE MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR...
...Igls near Innsbruck the best hotel had its bridal suite decked with blooms; the chef, with his eye on the railway timetable, had a sumptuous dinner under way; the town councilmen were in their frock coats; the town band had practiced up the Dutch national anthem...
...Nobel Prize for Chemistry to a profound student of molecular structure, Professor Peter Joseph Wilhelm Debye, 52, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. The Prize for Physics was divided between a pioneer cosmic ray researcher, Professor Victor Franz Hess, 53, of Austria's Innsbruck University, and 31-year-old Professor Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, discoverer of a fundamental particle of matter, the positive electron. Prizeman Debye will receive about $40,000, Prizemen Anderson & Hess each half that...
...nearly two decades the Roman Catholic Bishop of Detroit has been Most Rev. Michael James Gallagher. Born in Auburn, Mich, of Irish parents, "Mike" Gallagher was educated for the priesthood in Limerick, Ireland and Innsbruck, Austria. In the years following the War, Detroit's shepherd organized no new parishes, gave the University of Detroit a new 96-acre campus and plant, raised $9,000,000 for Sacred Heart Seminary, invited a dozen new religious communities to live and work among Detroit's 600,000 Catholics. Yet the total of all these worthy deeds has brought the white-thatched...
That night the royal party set off for Belgrade and home. At Innsbruck one reporter was allowed to board the special train. He learned from Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania that Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was a very sick woman. Besides the gallstones from which she has been suffering in recent weeks, she had painfully ulcerated teeth...