Word: polished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bolinski-Jundzill, now President of the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants will also speak. M. Bolinski, is a Polish student whose work in student activities has received world wide attention during the past two or three years. M. Franz Deak, Second Vice President of the C. I. E. and a special student in the Law School will give a short address. M. Max Habicht, who has been prominently connected with the Confederation and where lecture at the Union before Christmas treated wide attention from the undergraduates will be present at the dinner and will also speak briefly...
...this "formerly royal" cavalcade roared down the drive and disappeared through the lodge gate, correspondents followed eagerly, prayed to the gods of journalism that Der Reise-Kaiser* might be going to polish off his birthday by returning to Germany. They were disappointed. After driving about the Dutch countryside at a nigh rate of speed for some time, the Hohenzollerns and the correspondents returned to Doorn...
Late in the week, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, famed Princeton economist, onetime fiscal consultant to the German Reichsbank and to the governments of South Africa, Chile, etc., returned to the U. S. after a two weeks' visit in Poland, whither he had gone at the invitation of the Polish Government and by the request of Dillon, Read & Co. of Manhattan, who have recently dealt largely in Polish government securities...
...Princeton, Professor Kemmerer gave out a long statement in which he described the Polish Government as "taking hold with a firm hand," and the Poles as "grimly determined to pull through" the present period of financial depression. He added that the Polish Government has cut its budget 25% for the coming year and instituted other drastic economies, and he believes they will make good...
Observers noted that considerable hue and cry has been raised during the past two weeks over reports and rumors concerning what Professor Kemmerer did or did not think about Poland. Premature despatches gave the impression that he was about to return and paint the Polish fiscal situation in glowing colors. German correspondents, jealous of the tide of U. S. investments which they imagined this would turn in the direction of Poland, flayed Professor Kemmerer for "dashing over to report on Poland's finances, while his classes are taking their Christmas recess." Historians recalled that the Poles have been "pulling...