Word: magyars
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...fair contest to pick the blackest reactionaries in all Europe, Hungary's picturesque League of Awakened Magyars would win easily by several leopard skins- which Magyar nobles wear on state occasions slung across their hereditary, gold-frogged uniforms...
Hungarians, though well aware that the Awakened Magyars may stampede Hungarian Nazi elements into supporting their program, mocked openly last week at Awakened Magyar Point...
Under Awakened Magyar Point 20 every wedded couple would be expected to have a minimum of five children. For every child lacking after a statutory number of years, the couples' basic income tax would be upped 50%. Thus a childless couple would pay 350 pengös of income tax for every 100 pengös paid by a husband and wife of the same income with five children...
...Powell of Gilwell, 76, founder of the Boy Scouts in 1908 and Chief Scout of the World. When he stepped spryly off the steamer, hailed by Hungarian Scouts who had been forewarned. Lord Baden-Powell was sped to a more than regal abode, an historic tent used by the Magyar conquerors of Hungary in 900 A. D., now the property of Count Teleki and loaned by him to the Jamboree...
Died. Count Albert Apponyi, 86, Hungary's Grand Old Man and No. 1 League of Nations delegate; of pneumonia; in Geneva. A 6 ft.-6 in., spadebearded member of one of the foremost and oldest Magyar families (founded 1235), he long bickered against Habsburg absolutism, favored broadened suffrage. But in 1922 he declared for Habsburg's Otto as the "uncrowned" king of Hungary...