Word: johann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats, seven less than at the last election. In contrast to this meagre Fascist showing, the old guard Socialist Party of Austria, the Social Democrats, won 72 seats, one more than they held in the last Parliament. Finally the party groups aligned under grand old Austrian State Police Chief Johann Schober, whom the Catholic-Heimwehr forces ousted as Prime Minister six weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 6) won 19 seats, the chamber totaling...
Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window...
...face of things it merely seemed that several of aristocratic, van dyke-bearded Chancellor Johann Schober's cabinet members had quarreled with him one by one, had one by one resigned. Decisive was the resignation last week of Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Defense Carl Vaugoin, Seipel disciple and lay leader of the clerical party (Christian So-cialists). His reason: refusal by Chancellor Schober to countenance the appointment as President of the Austrian State Railways of another Seipel disciple, Herr Strafella...
...Shift. When almost a century ago, Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist, declared that sound and light would be changed in wave lengths if they proceeded from a moving source or to a moving observer,* astronomers looked through their telescopes at the far away stars and found that he was correct. They discovered that light from some stars appeared redder than normal, others appeared bluer, concluded that the red stars (the longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory...
Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...