Word: ignatz
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Atlantic under the Polish Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could do was to get the job for one of his "colonels," Valerian Slavek. Last week he grew weary of eternal bickering and backbiting from Parliament, principally because its parties...
...Excellency the President of Poland, Ignatz Moscicki, received last week a request. Meeting at Cracow, ancient seat of the Kings of Poland, some 20,000 Poles had signed the request. They included 160 Deputies representing six Parliamentary parties and 5,000,000 ballots...
...been shaken and Parliament has been silenced," declared a manifesto adopted unanimously by the Cracow mass meeting. "For four years the will of the Dictator, Marshal Pilsudski, has been imposed upon succeeding Cabinets and upon the President himself. . . . The nation must mobilize in defense of Freedom. . . . Ignatz Moscicki should resign...
...Ignatz Moscicki (who was for a time a Swiss citizen and therefore changed his Polish "Ignacy" to "Ignatz") did not re-sign last week, and walrus-whiskered, swashbuckling, often eccentric Marshal Josef Pilsudski continued morosely to dictate. About once a year he makes some striking public utterance, and for the past two years it has been a variant of his celebrated saying...
...Born in Poland, but later a naturalized Swiss, and only in recent years a renaturalized Pole, he has been more often called "Ignatz" than "Ignacy,"' answers to friends who call him either...