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...country's most important political parties. Railroads are vital to Austrian farmers. In 1930 the farmers got him a seat on the State Railway Board; by October he was President of the Federal Railways. Next year saw him Minister of Agriculture & Forestry in the Cabinet of Chancellor Otto Ender (now Minister-without-portfolio in the Dollfuss Cabinet) and he held the job through the Government of Chancellor Buresch. In May 1932 that fell, and kindly old President Wilhelm Miklas called on 39-year-old Engelbert Dollfuss to form a Government. He gave no answer, but went to his favorite...
...chief scout and presumptive future king, Prince Gustav Adolf, 27, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, 50. Then, as Scouts set up a mighty cheer, out on two prancing chargers rode B.P. and His Serene Highness Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary (whose 20-year-old pretender "King Otto" much resembles an apple-cheeked Boy Scout). "Hungary welcomes you!" cried Regent Horthy. "And Hungary welcomes the father of scouting, Lord Baden-Powell. I hope you will all enjoy your stay." Ever practical, B.P. exhorted, "You are here for only a few days. I hope you all have notebooks and will...
...they had a list of men they were going to take and that every one of them would pay." Instantly local and state police guards were thrown around the homes of 40 rich Chicagoans, among them: Arthur Cutten, John D. Hertz. President Warren Wright of Calumet Baking Powder Co., Otto W. Lehman (former owner of The Fair department store). The names of the other 36 marked men were withheld by police. Politicians. Beer drenched and politics complicated another major kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr. kept secret the fact...
...Federation received official notice canceling previous orders that they must prepare to pool their plants in a Hitler "corporate state." Another victory for Dr. Krupp von Bohlen was the ousting from the ministries of economics and industry last week of two Nazis supposed to be rabidly Socialistic, Otto Wagner and Alfred Muller. Finally all talk of a "Second Revolution" among Nazi radicals was vigorously spiked by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick in a circular letter to the Statthalters (Hitler-appointed "Viceroys" of all the German states...
After six months bald, hawk-eyed Judge John Munro Woolsey had tried to speed the longest U. S. criminal trial a bit by convening court a half-hour earlier each morning. That was after Chief Defendant Otto E. Goebel went on the stand every court day from March 30 to May 18. When he finished testifying he was 25 Ib. lighter and his hair had turned snowy white. The charge against him, his two sisters-in-law (Misses Irene & Elizabeth Flautt) and six salesmen was scandalous but simple. Goebel and associates had succeeded in bilking $3,000,000 from...