Word: prochaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These two meet while climbing mountains in the Tirol. Dr. Prochaska of Feldbruck is an impassioned adherent of Hitler to whom the mountains offer an almost mystic attraction: "It had been these mountains here and the others like them that all his life had wooed him from the streets and the houses as the thought of women wooed him. He knew their sloping icy shoulders. . . . He knew the chains of them well; the Ortler group with the tall lovely leaning body of the Ortler casting her shadow from exile on them, and the Venediger looking towards the lagoons...
...love affair of Dr. Prochaska and Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...
Cigar Bands. George Schlegel. Inc., and Harry Prochaska, Inc. started suit for $858.000 damages against Consolidated Lithographing Co. and International Banding Machine Co. who together make most of the seven billion bands used each year on the country's seven billion cigars. Invoking the mighty aid of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Clayton Act, Messrs. Schlegel and Prochaska allege no less than 20 "overt acts" in restraint of the cigar band trade...