Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This raises the point that in many cases, the law, strict as it may be, is often ever more strictly administered by the Immigration Service. In one case, a Polish DP student falsely stated at a hearing that he did not have a job. About a year later, he voluntarily admitted at another hearing that he had lied. Officials regarded the falsehood as an example of "moral turpitude" despite the fact that student made the admission without any pressure. He was ordered deported and now remains here only because of a private bill introduced on his behalf...
Once, though few of the present-day passengers would believe it, the tortugas ran on a fast, split-second schedule; but that was the era of spit-and-polish British management, and it did not last long. The revolutions of 1914-18 came along, and rival generals commandeered the cars for use as troop transports, armored units or mobile-gun platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn...
...from 21 to 18. ¶ Passed, in the House, a bill changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day-in recognition of the fact that the U.S. has gone through two major wars since Nov. 11, 1918. ¶ Voted, in the House, to permit former Lieut. Zdzislaw Jazwinski, Polish flyer who escaped to Denmark in a Soviet-built MIG, to live in the U.S. ¶Added, in the Senate Finance Committee, some $50 million in excise tax cuts to the $912 million reduction already called for in a House-passed bill. Included was a move to exempt regular-season...
...zoot-suited squares who resist the muscular dedication of their People's Republics. They call them variously hooligans, Bikinists (after the big bomb and the little bathing suits) or just plain Schlurfs. Last week a 25-year-old, gun-toting Schlurf named Jan Brzoza was up before a Polish court, charged, along with three accomplices, with robbery. The court decided to make an example of Brzoza and sentenced him to death on the simple grounds that if a Bikinist is not already a traitor he will probably be one before long...
...steal a look out of the fetid hold. The ship was in a British harbor, but no Britons were permitted aboard to see the human cargo she was carrying. In the face of the Communist guards, the Greek prisoners kept quiet. Soon afterward the freighter tied up at a Polish port, and the human cattle were transferred from its hold to sealed railway boxcars. Dragged, pushed and prodded from town to town over many months, the Moschou family were finally settled in a Hungarian village whose name had been changed from "Peace" to "Beloyannis" in honor of a Communist...