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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...
...Chancellor Ignaz Seipel of Austria cabled Chairman Otto H. Kahn of the Centennial's Advisory Board, greeted Schubert week as "the finest sign of the cultural and spiritual unity of America and Austria...
Next December a National Council, composed of members of both houses of the Austrian Parliament will quietly elect a President. His duties are only by courtesy executive. The acting Chief Executive is the Prime Minister (Monsignor Ignaz Seipel...
Unanimously vexed the Mayors emerged and jointly stated that: "Seipel has again surrendered to Mussolini's insatiable ambition." Soothing was a later visitor who stayed and chatted blandly for two hours -Charles Evans Hughes...