Word: ignatz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained serenely alive and firm. Called to vote acceptance or rejection of a Parliamentary slate selected by the Warsaw Government, Poles have just voted acceptance, though 60% of the high-spirited Polish electorate remained away from the polls and three Poles were killed in election shindies. Last week President Ignatz Moscicki, who was to Marshal Pilsudski about what Italy's King is to her Dictator, hailed a stirring and significant ceremony...
...Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess the reason, and three weeks ago when Poland adopted a new Constitution putting in legal form the system under which the country has run for years, and giving Puppet President Ignatz Moscicki the powers of a real dictator (TIME, May 6), all the world accepted the official explanation: Marshal Pilsudski's dictatorship was now nine years old. He wanted to see if the system was yet strong enough to stand on its own feet. If not he was ready...
...coup d'etat that raked the streets of Warsaw with gunfire for two days, kicked out the Government, and set up as President of Poland a kindly unworldly scientist who had been a good friend of the old Marshal's since their meeting in London in 1902: Ignatz Moscicki. Josef Pilsudski was content to become Premier, Minister of War and Inspector General of the Army. The last two posts he held until his death last week...
Pilsudski's puppet President throughout has been that great Polish scientist, Professor Ignatz Moscicki. When the old "Walrus" was wheezing with asthma last year, the President invented a device for pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige...
More familiarly last week rang the name of the Abbot Chao Kung, born Ignatz...