Word: hainisch
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...long ago President Michael Hainisch of Austria sat himself down before his polished desk and penned a poem of eight stanzas, entitled "My Country," extolling the beauties of Lower Austria, where he was born and where he rears pedigree cows that supply Vienna with an abundance of milk...
...service-the most rapaciously organized bureaucracy in Europe-had virtually threatened to strike if their combined salaries were not raised by the staggering total of 3,081,000,000 kronen ($445,000,000). Chancellor Ramek prudently evaded responsibility for unbalancing his budget by resigning. During the week President Michael Hainisch gave no inkling of whom he would call to the Chancellory...
...Vienna, Doktor Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic, recently presented a gold medal of the newly established Order of the Austrian Republic to the head of the local Chamber of Commerce...
...conferring the decoration did the babbittry of Graz become aware of what metal it was composed. Then pandemonium broke loose at "this tinsel insult to Graz!" Leaping to his feet, the Herr Professor Doktor Guertler, former Minister of Finance, loyal citizen of Graz, roundly scored and cursed President Hainisch as a "jackass." While local patriots cheered him to the echo, he recited a noted expurgated verse from Goethe's "Knight with Mailed Fist," which is usually regarded as a model of obscene revilement...
Affronted to the quick, Herr Schuerff caught the first train back to Vienna. There news of the event was received in Parliament "with laughter." President Hainisch, however, was with difficulty restrained from challenging Professor Guertler to a duel. Instead he decided to demand a personal retraction...