Word: monsignore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very tall, stoop-shouldered, beak-nosed Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, unexpectedly assumed last week a somewhat malignant role, as he strove to grasp powers verging on the dictatorial...
Twenty-four hours before election the announced position of the four major Austrian parties was that they would support the passage of a Constitutional amendment permitting President Hainisch to be elected for a third term. This was Chancellor Seipel's own program. Suddenly Monsignor Seipel scrapped his original program. He proposed not another four-year term but an unprecedented one-year term for President Hainisch. During this one year drastic Constitutional amendments would be drafted and passed, endowing the President with quasi-dictatorial powers and quadrupling his present paltry salary of about $100 weekly...
Socialists feared that the Chancellor was taking advantage of the crisis precipitated last week by a government employes' strike (see col. 2) to jam through an emergency measure so contrived that one year hence the beak-nosed Monsignor might himself assume the Presidency with semi-dictatorial powers. Still it was significant that Chancellor Seipel had said, impatiently lecturing strike leaders: "What Austria needs is a strong President to keep her house in order!" To many Socialists the inference seemed inescapable. Seipel, already strong, wanted to be stronger, strongest...
...from obscure school teaching to be rector of a little college, then Speaker. Unashamed of poverty, he claims to have worn every day since 1924 the same now threadbare morning coat, striped trousers, soft felt hat. A meek man, President Miklas has been content to stand and wait upon Monsignor Seipel and other leaders of the Clerical party called "Christian Socialist." The fact that he was elected is a tribute to the continued potency of Chancellor Seipel's coalition. But the fact that 91 Socialist electors abstained is of far greater significance...
...Belgrade last week returned King Alexander of Jugoslavia and spouse Queen Marie. Their eldest son, Crown Prince Peter, 5, was at the station, in care of Prime Minister Monsignor Koroshetz, and giggled gleefully, perhaps at King Alexander who has just shaved off his royal mustache...