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...reason why Hungary remains a slightly grotesque "kingless kingdom," ruled by His Serene Highness salty old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, is the notoriously high cost of supporting a Habsburg Court. Thousands of Hungarian Legitimists would like to restore "Little Otto," 20-year-old son of their late King Karl, but they know the extravagance of his regal mother Zita, fear she would insist that the State lavishly support dozens of penniless Habsburg archdukes. Last week in ancient Debrecsen, famed today for its tobacco-pipes, sausages and soap, Legitimists staged a monster pro-Otto rally several times disturbed by anti...
When police had dispersed the students, Legitimist Deputy Father Greiger startled Hungary by announcing that the Habsburgs are now willing to come back on the cheap. "We need have no fear of extravagance!" cried Father Greiger. "Otto has told me that on becoming King of Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
...suspicion exists that they are preparing for or assisting in treasonable actions," will not only be interned there, but must pay their own keep. Chancellor Dollfuss ignored Vice Chancellor Fey's doings but bristled up in Geneva when Austria's Habsburg pretender, handsome 20-year-old Archduke Otto, son of the late Austrian Emperor Karl, made a bid for restoration. In letters to three Austrian towns which conferred honorary citizenship on him last week (as have 144 towns previously) Otto declared, "With God's help I will be in Austria on a day not far distant...
Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen, of the department of History and Literature, weights eleven or twelve stone, measures some five foot eight, has brown eyes and lightish hair, is young, single and believes firmly in the possibilities of literature applied to life. As one of the gentlemen who writes the examinations for the field of History and Lit, he is the cause of much trepidation among the orthodox English literature tycoons; to others, to the majority, in fact, he has shone as the white hope of the department ever since being appointed. And to remain this to the English department...
...California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...