Word: tyroler
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...action all takes place in twenty-four hours in the Austrian Tyrol, with most of it transpiring in the Rote Hirsh or Reed Deer Inn presided over by a handsome young man. To the Hotel, on her holiday, comes an English school teacher whose life has been atrofied by a lifetime of teaching. The romance between the two lasts only for a day and a night; but during that time there comes for the girl an emotional awakening, a balcony scene taken right from "Romeo and Juliet", tragedy in the discovery of her lover's status as a husband...
...Hungary was important, but what Engelbert Dollfuss apparently went to Budapest for was to allow Vice Chancellor Emil Fey to perform a few blunt maneuvers for which Chancellor Dollfuss did not care to be directly responsible. The Heimwehr, fist of the Dollfuss regime, had seized virtual control of the Tyrol and was loudly demanding that the little Chancellor live up to his promise to end parliamentary government and attack Marxism in Austria (TIME, Feb. 12). Chancellor Dollfuss departed for Budapest and handed extraordinary powers to Vice Chancellor Fey, the Heimwehr's second in command...
...denied all charges. Into steep-roofed Innsbruck the mobilized, armed Heimwehr marched, practically seizing control of the city. It was rumored that they had been ordered to do so to forestall a Nazi Putsch. If that was so it worked, for not a Nazi showed his head in Eastern Tyrol. But when a Heimwehr mass meeting finally was held, Heimwehr Commander Prince Ernst von Starhemberg was lamb-gentle with the Hitlerites, spent most of his time raking Chancellor Dollfuss for not living up to his September promise to end Parliamentary government in Austria...
...capercailzie plumes of a First Lieutenant." He did. however, earn the two silver stars of a First Lieutenant. Stars on the collar tabs denote rank in the Austrian army. Edelweiss and "caper-cailzie" plumes are an integral part of the 14th Army Corps, the Edelweisskorps, H. Q Innsbruck, Tyrol, of the old Imperial & Royal Army. . Peasant upbringing and uncertain antecedents were no handicap to promotion to First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef." Requirements were high school diploma, successful completion of officers' training school, about 20 months in the front. But Dollfuss earned distinction by winning...
...father was foreign correspondents have been unable to prove and his adherents will not say. He graduated from the University of Vienna law school, studied National Economy in Berlin. At the outbreak of the War, Engelbert Dollfuss promptly enlisted in the Kaiserschützenregiment, a corps of Tyrol Alpinists...