Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rauschning who as "Premier" of Danzig healed the long feud with Poland in 1933, thus setting an example which led to the ten-year pact in which Realmleader Hitler agreed not to invade the Polish Corridor adjoining Danzig. Last week Danzig Nazi gangsters hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week...
Privately, prominent Danzig Nazis were ready to admit that the Polish Army would click into action if Adolf Hitler dared as much as even to reach for Danzig. They thought the Realmleader would not dare reach, just yet. However, the Nazi electioneering corps from Berlin last week surpassed all records in spouting at Danzig gems of German thought...
Unable to get Rauschning, the brownshirt gangsters beat up two Polish diplomats, smashed windows of the homes of the Portuguese and Lithuanian consuls for Gdynia, who live in Danzig, and perpetrated upon Danzigers 85 verified assaults...
...trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began to make steady money. He married a pretty Polish waitress and felt everything was fine...
...Captain Eden's train drew in, the Polish Foreign Office was defining Marshal Pilsudski's policy as one of "being able to take care of ourselves." The gruff old Dictator who refuses to be President and insists on being War Minister believes, really, in nothing but the sword. To him, the spokesman implied, it will be difficult for a suave young Etonian on the make to sell the Stalin-endorsed, Hitler-rebuffed Eastern Locarno Pact...