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Austria last week was like a man who begins to sniffle, wonders whether he is catching cold. In Vienna there were undeniable sniffles of Hitlerism. Under banners reading EIN VOLK-EIN REICH! ("One People-One Nation!") a crowd of 20,000 Viennese National Socialists (Nazis) gathered to cheer their leader, Herr Alfred Frauenfeld, as he roared: "Not Engelbert Dollfuss but Adolf Hitler is our Chancellor...
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Within is a jumble of objets d'art?an early self-portrait of Goya, a Volk head of Lincoln on its original base, a Rembrandt, a Pompeiian head, a fireplace which once belonged to James Russell Lowell, Gothic stained glass windows. No framed cartoons, even of "Abie," are visible...
There is one type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy. Even the late Jacob Volk, who called him- self ''the most destructive force in Manhattan," even the Napoleonic Herman Sonken of Kansas City, who has torn down whole towns and railroads in his time?even such experienced destroyers have much respect for vaults, especially vaults of reinforced concrete lined with steel...
Greatest anarch of his time was Jacob ("Jake") Volk, wrecker of Delmonico's, Vanderbilt homes, Chemical National Bank, et al., whose highest ambition, to wreck the Woolworth Building, remained unfulfilled at his death last month (TIME, March...