Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that only the meat and oil industries (as in 1914) are in a position to handle increased production immediately without sweeping rearrangement of facilities. In Chicago, sardonic Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, told a rally of 12,000 sympathizers that Poland could yet win Soviet aid if Polish workers would oust their present leaders. With Germany's war machine in motion, Communist Earl Browder changed his rationalization of the Nazi-Soviet pact from "a wonderful contribution to peace" to "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace...
Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...shadow touched old John Traczyka in his tiny Brooklyn luncheonette. Brooding, he turned his life savings of $1,000 over to the Polish war chest, jumped from his second-story window to death on the sidewalk...
Guilty Pastor. One night last month dull, unbeautiful Wanda Dworecki, 18, was strangled and beaten to death near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he had once been charged with lucrative arson by a fire insurance company. Last week a onetime boarder in the Dworecki home, 21-year-old Peter Schewchuk, confessed that at Pastor Dworecki's behest he killed Wanda while her parent was out preaching, got 50? for the job from Father...
World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...