Word: seipel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Oct. 7, in mentioning the former Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignore Seipel, you had to use the words "crafty priest." As I know the gentleman personally, I cannot for the life of me understand on what you based your right to this insinuation. Perhaps it is due to the loose and superficial manner of many journalists when they approach anything pertaining to the old Church, utterly disregarding the ordinary obligations of man to man; it should be discarded...
TIME eschews such expressions as "crafty priest," referred instead to "that crafty cleric, bald, eagle-beaked, ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel...
With the possible exception of that crafty cleric, bald, eagle-beaked ex-Chancellor Ignaz Seipel, Policeman Schober, conservative but officially aligned with no political party, is the strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...
...thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist Deputies number over one-third, their opposition has always blocked all such amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would...
...crisis now ended was precipitated by the resignation as chancellor of tall, bald, beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel (TIME, April 15), whom the Pope is expected shortly to elevate to the post of cardinal, a holy office considered incompatible with the mundane status of a prime minister...