Word: bartel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal of Poland, who is actually the law. Although he appears in the Sejm on important occasions (such as political crises, when he dons his much-worn military uniform to terrify his opponents), he leaves much governmental business to another puppet: Vice Premier & Minister of Religion & Education, Professor Kazimierz Bartel...
This time it was a matter of the budget. At the bill's first two readings the Deputies had cut, slashed and patched it?over-riding the demands of the Government a dozen times. Vice Premier Bartel, twittering, rushed out to Marshal Pilsudski's suburban home for advice...
...Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski has snapped the whip over President and Premier from the post of Minister of War; and Polish politics have degenerated into bedlam. Last week the Deputies of the Sejm, knowing that Pilsudski with the army at his back could and very well might chase them from Warsaw, united...
...vaudevillian crazy quilt made out of gaudy wisecracks and patches from several other farces in which New York vernacular has been employed for dramatic effect. Almost all the comedies of this season carry some echo of George Kelly's The Showoff. This one even shamelessly copies John Bartel's famed laugh. Joe Laurie, former vaudeville star, quite appropriately graduates into the leading role. The play appeals especially to the humor and tear ducts of folk who are not irritated because the title fails to attain the proper subjunctive mood...
Coincident with these manifestations came reports of hard sledding encountered by Premier Bartel in securing the confidence of Parliament in the Pilsudski program of constitutional reform (TIME...