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...sideburn, burnsides, mutton chops, or cōtelette was worn by Colonist Eric Olson. Famed throughout the Civil War period by the air with which General Ambrose Everett Burnside wore it, the cōtelette, when connected with the mustache, is known in Austria as the Kaiser Franz Josef bart...
Toughest job of Poland's cultivated soldier-aristocrats is to maintain a dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will...
...Paris the famed pro-League and pro-Blum French Correspondent Mme Genevieve Tabouis winced in anguish: "The Central European Powers are consolidated again, with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Josef replaced by Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini! Austria is lost to France and Great Britain...
...bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
...should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin cannot wait until similar Communistic chains are laid across the backs of free Americans...