Word: hainisch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Familiar to U. S. observers were three names in the new cabinet: Minister of Defense Vaugoin, reorganizer of the Austrian army, firm friend and ardent follower of Policeman Schober; Minister of Commerce Hainisch, Austria's beloved, white-bearded onetime President, whose pet cow Bella is world famed; and Minister of Finance Redlich. When the name of the new Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term...
Last November official Austria celebrated her 80th birthday. White hair piled high like a coronet, figure carried as proudly as it once held Brunnhilde's shield, Lilli Lehmann heard President Michael Hainisch confer on her the title of "Professor," listened as he rehearsed her glorious performances at the Vienna Opera in the days of the Empire, her efforts in behalf of the Mozart Festivals in Salzburg...
Retiring President Dr. Michael Hainisch created a prodigious sensation by declaring...
...complete was the deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting...
...desire me to continue President I do not for one moment doubt . . . during my incumbency much Austrian wit has been expended on my champion milch cow, Bella. Perhaps my countrymen should know that abroad there are few Honest Austrians so well known as Bella." With deadly insinuation angry Dr. Hainisch, then named Monsignor Ignaz Seipel as one of the very best known of Austrians, pointedly omitting to call him honest...