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...Hungarian associates to promote the candidacy of her son Albrecht for the Throne. This was the great lady's second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind passion for Sophie Countess Chotek, a mere lady-in-waiting to Isabella...
Prospects. In Berlin Vofwarts, organ of the largest German party (Social Democratic), declared "the Government could do nothing more stupid than to reject Herr Briand's proposal." Minister of Interior Dr. Josef Wirth, formerly Chancellor, promised that the Cabinet would examine the scheme "with an open mind...
Peddling strings of Wienerwurst on the sidewalks of Vienna, selling life insurance, and finally keeping a grocery store, have been the occupations since 1918 of His Royal Highness the Archduke Leopold of Habsburg,* second cousin of Emperor Franz Josef...
Significance: Dictator Josef Stalin is now easing up on his stern program of forcing independent peasants onto the Government's collective farms; examples are beginning to be made of over-zealous patriots like stupid Nikolai Konekov...
Ever since slack-chinned Prince Nicholas of Rumania became a chronic reckless driver (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...