Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled the "romance in the story of Haym Salomon, Polish Jew financier of the Revolution. Born in Poland, he was made prisoner by the British forces in New York, and when he escaped set up in business in Philadelphia. He negotiated for Robert Morris all the loans raised in France and Holland, pledged his personal faith and fortune for enormous amounts, and personally advanced large sums to such men as James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Baron Steuben, General St. Clair and many other patriot leaders, who testified that without his aid they could not have carried on in the cause...
...that he lacks any of Editor Crowninshield's sensibility and finesse, or his modernity in things aesthetic. But Publisher Nast is more practical. For some time he was advertising, then business manager of Collier's Weekly. He now has a string of publications of his own.* His polish is as that of hard ebony beside the soft silk of Mr. Crowninshield...
After the War, he came to Washington, was introduced by the old friends of his uncle into the best social circles. To earn a living, he proclaimed himself a Pole, applied for U. S. citizenship, accepted the Presidency of the Polish-American Navigation Co., which had a claim* against the U. S. Government. The Shipping Board refused the claim. But the Company had 30,000 stockholders and the support of 4,000,000 Poles throughout the U. S. The Count, their champion, got 25 Harding administration Senators to back his claim. With their signatures, he admonished the Shipping Board...
General Sikorski, Polish Minister of War, arrived in Paris. Ringing in his ears were the echoes of Germany's plain assertion that she would seek by pacific means "rectification" of the German-Polish frontier...
...said that, on the east, Poland has an enemy (Russia); on the west, Poland has an enemy (Germany); and on the north, Poland has an enemy (East Prussia, isolated German province). He pointed out that, from the last two places, Germany could launch an attack upon the Polish corridor (narrow strip of intervening territory leading to the sea), nip it off like a stalk of asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...