Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have only one face and we might as well do something with it." The speaker, Polish-born Mala Rubinstein, niece and operations chief to Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, last week gave Manhattan's WPIX televiewers the lowdown on how to make...
...philosophy of violence years ago as a law student in Poland, there had joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
...droves. Eyeing them, the New York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...
...admit 205,000 displaced persons in the next two years and permit 15,000 refugees already in the U.S. to remain. Because the bill stipulated that eligible DPs must have arrived in the Allied occupation zones of Germany before Dec. 22, 1945 (thus excluding many Jews fleeing 1946 Polish pogroms), and set aside special quotas for farmers, Baits & Volksdeutsche, it was denounced as discriminatory against Jews and Catholics...
...Hungary in 1940 by the Nazis, and had built up a prosperous electrical insulating business. Along with Louis Szanto, Virginia tobacco grower, and John F. Montgomery, prewar U.S. minister to Hungary, Bator put up about $100,000 to buy Népszava (circ. 23,000) from its Polish-American owners. The new owners will fight Communism at home & abroad, plug ECA and try to keep alive the idea of a free Danubian federation. They hope to double circulation among Hungarians in the U.S. and, by smuggling copies into Hungary, become a potent voice in the underground...