Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt proclaimed last week that on Oct. 11 the nation would honor Count Casimir Pulaski.* Thus he reminded the world of U. S. sympathy for Poland, turned U. S. eyes towards the 4,000,000 Polish-Americans settled throughout the land...
...last hours of the siege, Warsaw's hungry defenders were tempted by huge German posters in Polish reading, POLES! COME TO US. WE WILL NOT HURT YOU. WE WILL GIVE YOU BREAD! Polish officers who finally came out with a flag of truce were received by German General Johannes Blaskowitz in his railway staff car in a scene reminiscent of the signing of World War I's armistice in the car of Generalissimo Ferdinand Foch. General Rommel, commanding the defense of Warsaw, had instructed his emissaries to ask only a brief truce for the evacuation of civilians...
Just before midnight a Polish major arrived with the required order from General Rommel, set off escorted by a group of German officers for Modlin. Two German privates held high between two poles a broad white banner lit by glaring portable searchlights. Modlin was given until 6 a. m. to hoist a white flag of surrender, but failed to do so, and heavy German bombardment at once began. This continued until 7 a. m., when Modlin finally hoisted the white flag. In front of Warsaw the "stop firing" order had been given on both sides...
...Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer. Not to be outdone, Yale announced that it had bagged University of London's famed Polish Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. Busy Yalelings began to heel the News, lazy ones to loaf along the Fence...
...Consul General William M. Cramp remained in Warsaw as he had in Addis Ababa three years ago, when he and his assistants turned away Ethiopian marauders with machine-gun fire, saving U. S. lives and State documents. When the Nazis besieged Warsaw, 136 U. S. citizens of Polish extraction took refuge at the embassy. Asked how long he would stay, Consul General Cramp replied: "Until 136 U. S. citizens are able to leave Warsaw...