Word: vaugoin
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...face of things it merely seemed that several of aristocratic, van dyke-bearded Chancellor Johann Schober's cabinet members had quarreled with him one by one, had one by one resigned. Decisive was the resignation last week of Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Defense Carl Vaugoin, Seipel disciple and lay leader of the clerical party (Christian So-cialists). His reason: refusal by Chancellor Schober to countenance the appointment as President of the Austrian State Railways of another Seipel disciple, Herr Strafella...
With too many props kicked out from under them, Chancellor Schober and his remaining cabinet ministers resigned. Soon afterward, Monsignor Seipel was announced at Oslo to have taken airplane for Vienna. Meanwhile President Wilhelm Miklas of Austria had asked Seipel Disciple Vaugoin to try and form a cabinet...
Familiar to U. S. observers were three names in the new cabinet: Minister of Defense Vaugoin, reorganizer of the Austrian army, firm friend and ardent follower of Policeman Schober; Minister of Commerce Hainisch, Austria's beloved, white-bearded onetime President, whose pet cow Bella is world famed; and Minister of Finance Redlich. When the name of the new Minister of Finance was announced to Austrian newsgatherers, Dr. Josef Redlich, famed jurist, historian, lecturer, was at Cambridge, Mass., comfortably ensconced as Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Comparative Public Law at Harvard University. Professor Redlich has already served a term...
...during the cabinet crisis of 36 days which ended last week, the four principal parties in the republic battled each other to a standstill so often that it seemed almost time to hang up the D. W. F. sign−"Divided We Fall." Almost every day War Minister Karl Vaugoin stormed that the republic ought to fall, repeatedly demanded proclamation of a dictatorship...
...today enables the working people of Vienna to rent houses for next to nothing by paying their landlords at the pre-War rate in the pre-War currency of Imperial Austria, now worth less than half of its former value. It is not news that Catholic War Minister Karl Vaugoin openly advocates the proclamation of a Fascist Dictatorship, while Communist Otto Bauer, onetime Foreign Minister, is quite as eager to proclaim a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Finally there is not space in which to note that Wall Street is inclined to sell distinctly short on Austria-as is shown...