Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the priests saw the power of the Polish landowners coming to an end," declared Bezbozknik, "they banded together with the landowners and gendarmes and took weapons into their hands...
...Polish territory occupied by Russia, elections were announced last week to take place Oct. 22 for deputies to a national convention. This was expected to vote confirmation of the seizing of Polish estates and their division among the peasants. According to Soviet newspapers, Polish peasants in the sphere occupied by Russia have now been supplied with adequate tobacco, matches and salt, previously were so poverty-stricken that they had been smoking dried cherry leaves...
...known, the biggest concentrated air bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...
Latest writer to tell the old, old story is Sholem Asch, sad-eyed Polish-Jewish novelist (Three Cities), now in the U. S. Published this week is his long (698 pages) The Nazarene, November Book-of-the-Month.* As full of Hebraic fervor, and often as mournful, as a synagogue chant-it was written in Yiddish-The Nazarene brings ancient Palestine to life, offers the most extraordinary evocation of Jesus since Renan's. Yet Author Asch's viewpoint is so objective it should not offend Christian sensibilities...
Married. Josef Lipski, former Polish Ambassador to Germany, to a Mme Rosset, who had just squeaked out of Warsaw by plane before the Germans captured it; in Paris. Day after his wedding, Mr. Lipski went off to enlist as a private in the Polish Legion in France...