Word: kosciuszko
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...Gdynia-America Line, consolidating all lines under one central management, subsidized if necessary by the Government. One Polish specialty is taking U. S. Jews by ship to Gdynia, by train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa (Rumania), by Polish ship again to Palestine Three old liners, Kosciuszko, Pulaski and Polonia, have been put on the Constantsa-Haifa and South American routes, leaving the North Atlantic to the Pilsudski and Batory...
Poland's Westminster Abbey is the cathedral of Wawel Castle. Here lie buried Poland's ancient kings and heroes: John Sobieski who saved Vienna and Europe from the Turks in 1683; Kosciuszko, Champion of Liberty; Prince Poniatowski. President Moscicki pronounced the last eulogy and the body of Marshal Pilsudski, in a silver coffin, was laid to rest beside them. With much simpler ceremonies Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University...
...private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only one who still flies commercially. A transport pilot (unemployed), he once went treasure-hunting by air in Yucatan. Though he has written many a tale for pulp magazines, his story of the Kosciuszko Squadron is his first book. Lean, bronzed, reserved, Author-Pilot Murray is married, has one child, lives in Tuckahoe...