Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock, March 11, 1938. Göring (to the German ambassador in Vienna): "By 19:30 o'clock [an Austrian National Socialist] Cabinet must be formed...
...result was the second rude jolt to Russian prestige in Russian-occupied lands in a month. Hungary's Communists had been snowed under by the Small Holders Party (TIME, Nov. 12). Now Austria's Communists went down to defeat even in the working-class districts of Vienna and Wiener Neustadt. The Volks-partei, heir to Dollfuss' old Christian Social Party and catchall for former members of the Pan-German and Heimwehr parties, rolled up about half of the vote. The Social Democrats got more than...
When all the returns were in, Austria was back where it had been 15 years ago, with results almost matching those of the last free national elections in 1930. Once again "Red Vienna" had voted heavily Social Democrat. Once again the "black countryside" had voted for the Right. And the Communists, nowhere then, were nowhere...
Wagner: Act III, Die Walkure (Helen Traubel, Herbert Janssen, Irene Jessner and vocal ensemble from the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). Victor recorded Act I in Vienna, Act II in Berlin. Now Columbia finishes the job. The Met's mighty Brunnhilde comes through a good yo-ho above everyone else. Performance: good...
...Physics prizewinner for 1945 was Vienna-born Professor Wolfgang Pauli, 45, who had worked since 1940 in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Professor Pauli is an authority on quantum mechanics, that nightmarish never-never branch of science where solid matter begins to dissolve into waves and energy...