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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Allegedly influenced by the damage inflicted to its reputation in foreign countries by the Jews, the Polish Government made an important agreement with the Jewish Poles. The accord was negotiated by Foreign Minister Count Skryzynski, who is shortly coming to the U. S., and Minister of Education Professor Stanislaw Grabski, acting for the Government. Deputies Dr. Thon and M. Reich represented the Jewish cartel in the Chamber of Deputies. Most of the credit for the move, which was thought exceedingly clever in Warsaw, was given to Count Skryzynski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Accord 'with Jews | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...return for these concessions, which make life tolerable for the Jews in Poland, the Jewish Party, representing one of the most important minorities, agreed to end its resistance to the Polish State and to take its place in the Chamber of Deputies as a Polish Party whose members are first Polish citizens. Furthermore, the Party agreed to inform "those interested abroad" that the Polish Government is meeting Jewish demands. This will, it was said, necessitate a visit by Deputy Reich to the U. S. in the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Accord 'with Jews | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...brother, Leon Czolgosz, 28, brown-Iiaired, smooth-shaven Polish anarchist, had heard Emma Goldman speak, had been fired by her doctrine that "all rulers should be exterminated." On Sept. 6, 1901, dressed like a respectable young mechanic, carrying a revolver wrapped in bandages about an appar ently injured hand, he entered the Temple of Music at a Buffalo Exposition. He stood in line to shake hands with President William McKinley. At the appropriate moment, he fired two shots. Police and Secret Service men saved Czolgosz from slaughter by the crowd. Eight days later, McKinley died and 45 days afterwards, Czolgosz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 15, 1925 | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...quoth Jacob Epstein, "American-born Polish Jew." Now a man of 45, he has had a stormy career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Epstein | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

Fricka, wife of the King of the Gods, in the earthly simulacrum of a Polish soprano named Olzewska, stood in the Vienna Staatsoper, lifting a curve of song that flashed over the dark orchestration like a silver simitar. Another voice was also audible. Through the cadences of Wagner's music, the brandished curve of Olzewska's voice, it issued from the wings, rising and falling in charming periods, punctuated with little ripples of laughter, like :he voice of a woman telling a funny story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spittle | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

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