Word: otto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called "legitimate" heir is of course fourteen-year-old Prince Otto, son of the late Karl I, last ruling Habsburg Emperor (reigned 1916-1918). But "Little Otto" is not favored by many Hungarian nobles, both because of his youth and because the Allies might not stomach the restoration of the very prince whose father they overthrew. From this and other technical causes† many Hungarians have turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore...
...Hungarian Parliament passed a decree (1921) affirming its right to elect anyone king, and denying the exclusive right of Otto to the succession. -The complicated Habsburg relationships are best disentangled with relation to the Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792). Franz Josef was his great grandson. Karl was his great-great-great-grandson. And Albrecht is his great-great-grandson. All these through slightly different lines...
...amid bleak, uncouth warehouses facing the grimy waters, where he intends to make rise the $7,500,000 monumental abode of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and create a midWest music Mecca. Perhaps Mr. Insull's plan is a lusty answer to the Babylo-American style skyscraper which Otto Hermann Kahn is now erecting for the Metropolitan Opera among the tenements and speakeasies which creep up to 56th and 57th Streets at 8th and 9th Avenues, in Manhattan...
...week ran -it, but no Morris Gest, or other enterprising producer, no Otto Kahn or other Maecenas, not even Patron Idea-man Edward W. Bok came forward to help Dr. Stokowski. People of the maddeningly practical turn of mind suggested that the ardent artist persuade his audiences to close the"ir eyes...
Married. Janet Sill Bannard, cousin of Otto Tremont Bannard, famed Manhattan financier, who gave her away; to Robert Dudley West; in Manhattan...