Word: ignatz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warsavians gaped amazedly last week as Ignatz Moscicki, by birth a Pole, by title "Professor," by profession an engineer, by naturalization a Swiss, was elected President of Poland...
This extravagant denouement to the Pilsudski revolution (TIME, May 24 et seq.) followed Marshal Pilsudski's refusal of the presidency, to which Parliament elected him (TIME, June 7), and his curt intimation to the astonished Deputies that they had best elect "honest Ignatz Moscicki," heretofore a total political nobody, but an intimate of Pilsudski...
...Honest Ignatz,"† though elected,** did not-according to gleeful correspondents-possess a dress shirt in which he could be inaugurated. Three days later-a shirt having been obtained and the ancient palace of the Polish kings well aired for the ceremony-he took the oath of office, while bluff brain-stormy Pilsudski lounged in a great carved chair, nearby, surrounded by his officers...
...almost comic indication of how vastly Pilsudski bulks above "Honest Ignatz" was seen when the Marshal peremptorily "invited" the new President to reside in the Belvedere Palace, where Pilsudski himself is lodged...
Counter threats. Militant "anti-Ignatz" demonstrations throughout Poland subsequently became so serious that President Moscicki was obliged to proclaim a state of emergency in Lemberg and a state of siege in Tarnopol, where rebellious Ukranians rioted and demanded the separation of East Galicia from Poland...