Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Discus Throw. Won by Halina Konopacka of Poland, 129 ft, 11 113/128 in., world's record...
...Nervous Nelly." Now the whole world knew him as the author of The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy. He has just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
...classed as a mere creature, according to despatches, was M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein, who was recently employed by the Polish Government to appraise a shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons...
...Polish Sejm [Parliament], which I call a prostitute, purposely framed the Constitution so that the greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...
...After I had led the war for giving Poland independence I wanted to leave Poland to her own devices. I asked myself whether I should handle the Polish Parliament as a prostitute, and tramp on it with my feet, or choose the other way of leaving it alone. Had I chosen the former method the unpleasant affair of May 1926 [Pilsudski's coup d'état] would never have occurred...