Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheers rang out as Sir John Simon, taking the same line, sarcastically referred to a telegram "which was read as though it were evidence [at the U. S. Senate inquiry] asserting that no less a person than His Majesty the King had sent for the Polish Ambassador and impressed upon him the importance of purchasing whatever he wanted from an English firm." Making no explicit denial, Sir John continued "Of course, that is perfectly and entirely grotesque. All of us, to whatever party we belong, know His Majesty to be perfectly incapable of having any connection with this silly story...
Latest of European statesmen to ape President Roosevelt's microphone manner is Premier Leon Kozlowski of Poland. His "Moi przyjaciele. . . ."is now almost as familiar and effective as the U. S. President's "My friends. . . ." Last week he cuddled up to his microphone and told the Polish people about their budget and their armaments...
...Government to clap into jail for five years any Pole who supplies information to a foreign government which could be used against Poland in case of war. Since the decree is so drawn that it can be made to cover even ordinary economic news printed in a daily paper, Polish publishers were incensed last week...
...Thomas J. Walsh, to remove their priest, Monsignor Ignatius Szudrowicz. They cited Canon No. 2,147 of their Church, which provides that a priest may be removed if his parishioners "hate" him. The petitioners assured Bishop Walsh that a majority of Monsignor Szudrowicz's flock of 4,000 Polish-Americans do indeed "hate" him. Unconvinced, the Bishop dismissed the complaint. The "haters" tried to picket the church, were prevented by police...
...entire Gold Standard Bloc: France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Poland. The Poles had at first refused to attend. At the last minute Warsaw got wind that Paris was prepared to make handsome concessions all round to keep the Bloc on gold. In a wild scramble a "Polish Delegation'' to the Brussels Conference was hastily recruited at the Polish Legation in Brussels...