Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pilsudski's puppet President throughout has been that great Polish scientist, Professor Ignatz Moscicki. When the old "Walrus" was wheezing with asthma last year, the President invented a device for pepping up the air breathed by the Dictator in his suburban Belvidere Palace. Last week the grim old Marshal threw a cordon of his fanatically loyal troops around the President's palace, shooed into it the Cabinet, Diet and Senate and provided Professor Moscicki with pen & ink. Scratch, scratch the puppet President signed a new Constitution (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933) which sweeps into the dustbin every vestige...
...Elitarism" is the contribution to political science of Colonel Walery Slawek, spur-clinking Premier and close crony of the Marshal. Last week Colonel Slawek was hailed as "Father of the Polish Constitution." As a bow to Democracy it retains Poland's democratically elected Chamber but strips it of power by giving the President an absolute veto. The Senate is replaced by "The Assembly of Elders," one-third appointed by the President, the other two-thirds by Poland's new official Elite, namely males who have won either of two war decorations, the Virtuti Militari Order or the Independence...
...from his father about 20 years ago, Trader Rosenbaum began an ambitious program of expansion, considered himself something of an Insull in the grain business. Besides loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny Rosenbaum...
...accused was Poland's towering knobby-knuckled Foreign Minister Josef Beck who steered Poland into her ten-year non-aggression pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 3, 1934). Last week the German Press was so hopeful that Poland would deadlock the Council that even when Nazis in the Polish Corridor were mobbed and beaten by irate Poles no newspaper in Germany was allowed to print the fact. At Geneva cool Colonel Beck at the last minute cast Poland's vote with that of all Council members except abstaining Denmark to approve two measures...
...construction material, the North Haven's 6,000-ton cargo includes every imaginable item needed to keep the men on the islands supplied with life's necessities during their lonely tenure. Some of the items: razor blades, soap, safety pins, flashlights, cigarets, chewing tobacco, shoelaces, candy, shoe polish, boxing gloves, chess sets, checkerboards, books, toothpicks, toothpaste, chewing gum, food...