Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There he stands, arms folded. Suddenly the Deputies remember that he stands, after all, for Poland. His lion courage, his dramatic posturing, even his dynamic fickleness, are their own. In a flash the Deputies have changed their minds about the Budget Bill. A few moments, and it is voted through in its original form amid a dazed, hypnotic silence...
...this scene had played to its end last week, pandemonium broke loose. Opposition Deputies cursed one another for not voting down the bill. Beards bristled, tongues wagged. How ever had it all happened, asked the Deputies, amazed at themselves? The explanation seemed to be that Josef Pilsudski knows his Poland. From the new budget he will derive alarmingly great sums to spend upon his special toy, the army...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey sold to Vacuum Oil Co. all its equipment and stores in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. Vacuum Oil at the same time sold all its properties in Poland to Standard Oil of New Jersey. Neither will intrude in the other's sphere of influence, i. e., compete. Both are Standard Oil companies...
Great Britain last week made on time its eighth semi-annual payment of War debt interest (this time $67,950,000), and its fourth annual payment of principal (this time $25,000,000), $92,950,000 in all. Seven other nations: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, made payments totaling $3,568,418 more...
...especial request of His Holiness who thus confers upon Poland an honor hitherto accorded only to France, Spain and Portugal...