Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Brooklyn's noisy harbor last week sailed the Gdynia Amerika steamer Polonia, first passenger vessel ever to cross the Atlantic under the Polish Flag. Simultaneously, Warsaw was host to the East European Agrarian Conference. These commendable commercial pursuits, however, were vastly overshadowed by the political activities of blustering, oath-some Dictator Josef Pilsudski. Last April all the Dictator's shouting and all of his men-including President Ignatz Moscicki-could not prevail upon Parliament to make his brother Jan Prime Minister (TIME, April 7). The best Dictator Pilsudski could...
...Nations. Such rumors were the fruit of a speech made fortnight ago by Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister for Occupied Territories, who?campaigning for the newly-formed Conservative People's Party?intimated that the Fatherland still had a hungry eye on that part of East Prussia which is now the Polish Corridor (TIME...
...oppose Speaker Nicholas Longworth, renominated, in the Cincinnati district, Democrats selected John Williams Pattison, son of a onetime Governor of Ohio, wealthy, politically independent. Nominee Pattison, blond, affable, drove a truck in France during the War, later fought the Reds as a captain in the Polish air corps. He still flies, golfs. Speaker Longworth, opposed by Labor as a reactionary, may have to hump himself, for the first time in 15 years, to be returned to Congress...
...spoke blunt Gottfried R. Treviranus, Minister Without Portfolio in the cabinet of Chancellor Bruning, to cheering crowds assembled last week before the steps of the Reichstag. Six hours later the protests started, piled up in wave upon wave of outraged French and Polish anguish to a holocaust of denunciation...
Startled by the speed and strength of these attacks, Dr. Treviranus insisted last week that he had been misunderstood, repeated one phrase in his speech which had not been quoted in French and Polish papers...