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Officially disarmed to a minimum by post-War treaties which they have not yet officially broken, Austria and Hungary teem with assorted illegal armaments, but neither could put in the field forces strong enough to cope with the Little Entente. That job, shrewd Zita thinks, will be taken on by the Great Powers to prevent just such a general war as Dr. Benes envisioned. In snug, smug Habsburg circles last week chances were considered better than good that, if Otto is first proclaimed merely Regent in Vienna, the Great Powers will keep the Little Entente in check, promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Throne-Squatters | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ten of them are making money. All of them have supplied tenement dwellers with decent housing. But New York's slums still teem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Slum Loans | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Paris-in-China. When people finally take their dream-trip to Paris they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Governor General's Junket | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Italy, sold Italian securities in the U. S., has been considered abroad as a good example of the great power obtain able in the U. S. And the fact that he was in Italy at the moment of his failure caused the financial districts in Rome, Naples, Milan to teem with excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stockmarket & Sisto | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

Vienna, home of music and schnitzeln, is also the home of psychoanalysis. Dr. Sigmund Freud, lives there. So does Dr. Alfred Adler. Switzerland's Charles Gustave Jung pays frequent visits. The corridors of the special Psychological Clinics teem with their satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frustrated Regent | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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