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Word: lodz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, a rash of "sabotage" trials had broken out in Poland. The head of the state farms in Qlsztyn was sentenced to be hanged for "deliberately failing to carry out the state plan." In Lodz, five state bank directors were sent to prison for "mismanagement of state finances." So much administrative talent had been axed that President Bierut found it necessary to instruct party officials to avoid "all hasty and imprudent dismissals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Blind | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Untraditional. The industry takes his orders and likes it. So do his workers. The country over, the little ex-tailor from Lodz is cited even by hard-shelled reactionaries as "the one good labor leader." Says one employer: "That Dubinsky runs a union the best goddam way a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Little David, the Giant | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Arthur Szyk (pronounced Shik), 52, has been tackling big projects, usually in a small way, since he was six. In his home town of Lodz, Poland, his first subject was a series of drawings of the Boxer Rebellion. His father, a wealthy textile manufacturer, packed Szyk off to Paris at 15 to study art, and - when Szyk paintings began getting smaller & smaller -sent him on to Asia Minor to find out how the Mohammedans did their miniatures. Since World War I (in which he served with the Russians), Szyk's studious talent for the tiny has made him tops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Lodz to Canterbury | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...first man was Colonel Moczar, chief of Security Police of Communist-run Lodz in Poland. He was trying to keep followers of the Polish Peasant Party's Stanislaw Mikolajczyk from voting (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPALS: Cotton Curtain | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...Investigator Hoover had reported: "Conditions difficult but not intolerable, provided present rations can be maintained." But last week, in Warsaw, he found Poland's food situation "heartbreakingly bad"-the worst he had seen. He found "over 2,600,000 children terribly subnormal from undernourishment... two cities, Cracow and Lodz, have already been without bread for three weeks at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Against Starvation | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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