Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...
Great Britain .................................... $92,575,000.00* Belgium ................................................ 1,125,000.00 Hungary ................................................ 39,724.53 Lithuania ................................................ 47,896.35 Poland ....................................................1,000,000.00 Czechoslavakia ........... 1,500,000.00 Estonia.............................75,000.00 Finland...
...Italy 107,458,000 25,880,000 Belgium 97,244,000 23,280,000 Jugoslavia 54,277,000 12,960,000 Rumania 12,500,000 2,900,000 Japan 13,000,000 3,120,000 Portugal 8,000,000 1,920,000 Greece 4,000,000 960,000 Poland...
...Warsaw, Poland, a bandleader waved his baton, a violinist scratched his fiddle, other members of a jazz-orchestra made their respective sounds. For 33 hours and ten minutes the bandleader lead his determined performers through one jazz song after another, an interval of 45 seconds distinguishing each song from its successor. Then the bandleader stopped, mopped his face, and claimed that his orchestra had gained a record-the record for playing longer than any other jazz-orchestra...
...previous days he had several times received the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stocky, spiky-haired Professor Augustine Valdemaras. There had been a four-hour session of the League Council at which the issue had been argued hotly back and forth between M. Valdemaras and August Zaleski, Foreign Minister of Poland, who preceded Pilsudski to Geneva. The Council had even laid down provisional terms of settlement?terms not wholly agreed to by stubborn Prime Minister Valdemaras...