Word: austrians
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Though he formally retired from politics last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...
When Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, bald, beak-nosed former Chancellor of the Austrian Republic, sets out to upset a cabinet he succeeds. Last week this most potent of Austrian politicians was, characteristically, in Oslo, Norway, when the Austrian cabinet he has been working on all summer actually fell...
...resigned. Decisive was the resignation last week of Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Defense Carl Vaugoin, Seipel disciple and lay leader of the clerical party (Christian So-cialists). His reason: refusal by Chancellor Schober to countenance the appointment as President of the Austrian State Railways of another Seipel disciple, Herr Strafella...
...Shift. When almost a century ago, Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist, declared that sound and light would be changed in wave lengths if they proceeded from a moving source or to a moving observer,* astronomers looked through their telescopes at the far away stars and found that he was correct. They discovered that light from some stars appeared redder than normal, others appeared bluer, concluded that the red stars (the longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory...
...appointment of Joseph Redlich, Harvard Professor of Comparative Law, to the Hague Tribunal has recently been announced. Because of his previous training and his recognized ability the choice seems a particularly happy one. He was, at one time, an official in the Austrian Imperial Government and after the war, he was prominent in the politics of that country as minister of finance for the republic. He is well known in this country as an historian and as the able biographer of Franz Joseph. Some years ago he came to Harvard and now holds the position of Professor of Comparative...