Word: seipel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
Political Paradox. Mgr. Seipel (Christian Socialist) succeeds as Chancellor, Dr. Rudolf Ramek, also a Christian Socialist. Not only is the new Chancellor of the same party as his predecessor, but they are both agreed on the fundamental policy of resistance to the incessant demands of Austria's organized state employes for higher...
...then, if Chancellor Ramek was forced to resign because he resisted the organized bureaucrats (TIME, Oct. 25), was he replaced by Chancellor Seipel who will resist still more vigorously...
...Party controls sufficient votes to control the Chancellory, but is divided within itself on the question of "states rights" for the Austrian provinces v. pan-Austrian "centralism." Dr. Ramek, leader of the former group, waxed potent two years ago, and usurped the Chancellory (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) from Mgr. Seipel, Chancellor then as now, when the latter was under fire (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924) for not raising the salaries of Austria's state-employed railway workers...
...hearty vote of thanks to Count Koudenhove-Kalergi for his industry in assembling such famed delegates as: Alexander Kerensky, Herr Paul Loebe (President of the German Reichstag), Chancellor Rudolf Ramek of Austria, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, onetime (1922-24) Chancellor of Austria...