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...Egon Seefehlner had picked almost anyone but Socialist Deputy Berthold Koenig to bribe last week he would still have his job as General Director of Austria's Federal Railways; Italy's alliance with Hungary would be more effective; Hungary would soon have 50,000 rifles; Austrian railroads would be embarked on a profitable if illegal business; France and Britain would continue to believe that they had nipped an international plot...
Last week Austrian Railway Director Seefehlner called Deputy Koenig into his office. Berthold Koenig is not only a Deputy but an important official in the Austrian railwaymen's union and a Socialist. There was an official excuse for the conference: a threatening railway strike over a pay cut. Director Seefehlner had a little suggestion to make...
...Herr Koenig knew that the Italian rifles must be returned to Italy? Director Seefehlner had arranged that carloads of the disputed weapons were to go back to Italy by Wiener-Neustadt. Wiener-Neustadt is but 20 mi. from Hungary. If the sealed freight cars containing the rifles were switched in the middle of the night at Wiener-Neustadt to a branch line running to Sopron, Hungary, there unloaded, resealed with forged seals, switched back again and forwarded empty to Italy, there would be 150,000 schillings ($21,000) in it for the Austrian railway union. It would also establish...
What did Boss Koenig get? Despite denials, even Republicans were sure that Tammany had been gotten to promise to withhold enough votes from Governor Roosevelt in the national election to let New York go for Herbert Hoover...
...Hofstadter endorsement by Tammany deprived local Republicans of the chance of raising a graft-&-corruption cry against the Democratic nominee for Mayor. Boss Curry had silenced the issue he dreaded most. Most observers thought the deal included the nomination by Boss Koenig of a flabby Republican over whom "Jimmy" Walker could walk back to city hall with the least trouble...