Word: austrians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Austrian to be sentenced to death since Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss revived the death penalty to cow Nazis was a non-Nazi farm boy named Hans Breitweiser. Like the hero of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, he had resolved to marry a well-dowried girl, after he had seduced a poor one. His solution was to murder the poor girl last week, so bunglingly that she lived long enough to accuse...
Skiing down the glittering white shoulder of a Bavarian alp on the Austro-German border a group of black spots loomed large to an Austrian frontier patrol. In the huge, still basin a single shot sounded loud, a puff of smoke looked small against the snow. One of the coasting black spots crumpled, slid into a sprawled heap. Thus did a nervous Austrian soldier kill one Philipp Schumacher, private in the German Reichswehr...
...Room of Kirkland House at 7.30 o'clock tonight after a dinner given in his honour. His subject will be "German Political Changes and Their Effects on Student Life". Dr. Kotschnig, who has written several books on education and is a well known authority on the subject, is an Austrian and the general secretary of the International Student's Service, to which the Harvard Student Council gives a yearly sum of money. This organization has charge of the student relief work carried on by the newly formed commission of the League of Nations. It was founded during...
...which brings me to the subject in hand. Why did the Austrian Roman Catholic Bishops suddenly order the clergy to refrain from all participation in political activity after December 15? For about fifty years, and especially in the last fifteen, the priests have played a major and often decisive part in the Austrian parliament, provinces, and municipal councils through the Christian Socialist Party, and more particularly in their more personal roles as keeper of the consciences of the faithful...
...that Marxism has been exorcised, the Catholic Church very cleverly ceases active support of Dollfuss, whose only opponents are the Nazis. Thus they avoid a possible loss of favor, should the Nazis win. The issue is now between Austrian capitalism and Austro-German capitalism. The Church has conclusively proved that its interest was not in Austria, but in capitalist, Austria...