Word: gdynia
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Into Brooklyn's noisy harbor last week sailed the Gdynia Amerika steamer Polonia, first passenger vessel ever to cross the 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...
...sturdy ships, the Florida, Estonia and Lithuania, which have been plowing back and forth for several years between New York and the Free City of Danzig. Now, flying the White Eagle of Poland, they will pass up poor Danzig, will call at the new and prosperous port of Gdynia, an artificial harbor constructed by Poles with mighty zeal near the tip of their famed "corridor to the sea." Nothing would please most Poles more than that Danzig, ancient and once splendid city of the Hanseatic League, should die of slow, economic strangulation...