Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles of costly barb wire entanglements through a narrow gap in which the train runs. The Polish side is guarded by a regiment of well uniformed soldiers with their lip sticks and rouged cheeks while on the Russian side there is merely a large wooded arch inscribed with the words Communism destroys frontiers...
...Capper is 60, slender, affects no polish of dress or manner, neither is he an aggressive type. He looks "like a country editor, grown into large estate"?and he is. He began life by learning typesetting on a small Kansas newspaper; he graduated into editorial work, became a reporter, city editor, Washington correspondent, publisher. He owns nine farm papers, with a combined weekly circulation of 1,500,000. He owns the Topeka Daily Capital, on which he began as a typesetter, besides another daily in Kansas City, a political weekly with a circulation of 600,000, and a "home...
...Prince Carol of Roumania is stopping at a hotel in Venice, Milan and Lucerne, with a mysterious lady who is really Zyzis and Princess Helen, unless she is a Roumanian-Italian-Polish-Jewess of high rank whom he met while attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious...
...Floater of Polish, Brazilian and Dutch loans; builder of Youngstown Sheet & Tube: successful competitor of J. P. Morgan & Co. for the huge (146-million) Dodge Bros, deal (TIME, April...
...that it was a job painting a tenement house. Handicapped by lack of funds and little knowledge of English, he was compelled to do this sort of work until he saved money enough to go into business for himself. This eventually led him into the real estate business. This "Polish Jew" is now, at the age of 44, the most romantic and one of the biggest real estate operators in New York, having handled deals during the past ten years which aggregate almost...