Word: moscicki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski, having installed his puppet, "Honest Ignatz Moscicki," as President of Poland (TIME, June 14), continued last week to dictate to the government of Poland as he pleased...
...interim Bartel-Pilsudski Cabinet (TIME, May 31) promptly resigned but President Moscicki requested its members to carry on temporarily...
Significance. Plain as a pikestaff loomed Pilsudski's chagrin at not obtaining a three-fifths parliamentary majority-either at his own election or Moscicki's-wherewith to amend radically the Constitution, increase vastly the executive power, and institute the broad program of reforms which he envisioned at the time of his coup...
President Moscicki is well and favorably known as the inventor of a potent synthetic fertilizer...
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...