Word: nix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later at Olympia, Zioncheck's bride, a onetime PWA stenographer named Rubye Louise Nix, sat down at a typewriter in the office of Washington's Secretary of State, filled out her husband's declaration of candidacy, which he signed. Reason: His mother wished him to. He announced he would run not as "a personality" but as a man "who stands for certain principles." Two days later 17 local railway union groups endorsed him on this platform and Representative Zioncheck rousingly declared: "I still feel that even if all those things they say about...
...bride, Rubye Nix Zioncheck, 21, walked...
...rivalry between Militarist Starhemberg and Civilian Schuschnigg reached a near climax with the Prince's attempt to wreck the Chancellor's Cabinet through the Phönix-Wien insurance scandal (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Politically it was a squib. More serious trouble occurred fortnight ago when Chancellor von Schuschnigg's own private army, the Catholic Freiheitsbund. staged an anti-Semitic march around the Ringstrasse. Word leaked out that Heimwehrmen, in civilian clothes, had been told off to break the parade up with rioting when it reached the Heldenplatz. Scrawny Chancellor von Schuschnigg promptly showed a personal...
Vienna promptly overflowed with rumors of the number of potent Austrians who had been bribed by Phönix-Wien's mysterious manager, the late Dr. Wilhelm Berliner. Last week Chancellor Schuschnigg revealed that he held a powerful counter-weapon against Prince von Starhemberg, the actual, 24-page list of those whom Phönix-Wien had reached with cash euphemistically described as ''loans" "stock sales" and "insurance policies." This lifesaver, which he had been handed by a high Phönix-Wien official, Chancellor Schuschnigg proceeded to publish...
...schillings paid to buy houses for Jewish refugees from Germany, and a payment of 108,000 schillings to Anton Rintelen, now serving a life sentence for participation in the Nazi Putsch which led to the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss. Maintaining the goodwill of the Austrian Press cost Phönix-Wien 1,098,000 schillings...