Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieving all this, Obregon has had capable coadjutators. First of all there is Huerta, the finance minister who arranged with Thomas W. Lament of J. P. Morgan & Co. for the refunding of the Mexican debt. Descended from Yaqui Indians, Spaniards and Polish Jews, Huerta is everything but a soldier. Whatsoever things are practical, he thinks on those things. Then there is General Calles, head of the cabinet. A dreamer, a radical, once a school teacher, he has lived for "land and freedom." An unofficial helper has been Morones, labor leader. He wears check suits, silk shirts, and a heavy revolver...
General Weygand is in the complete confidence of the French Government, who describe him as "a consulting specialist in grave cases demanding immediate diagnosis and rapid intervention." He is best remembered as the leader of the Polish army which secured in 1920 a smashing victory over the Bolsheviki...
...Edouard Benes, Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister, abandoned a projected visit to Warsaw, capital of Poland, on account of strong opposition shown by the Polish public. The object of Dr. Benes' visit was to induce Poland to enter the Little Entente-Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania. But Polish public opinion is against such a step...
...request from Lithuania, who asks permission to bring before the International Court at The Hague an appeal against the recent decision of the Council of Ambassadors in connection with the Polish-Lithuanian frontier dispute...
...preparation for their New York productions, the club has devoted the past week to intensive rehearsals of both plays. They have had a better opportunity than ever before to polish the character parts, because both plays have been given previously with casts almost identical with these that will make the trip...