Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rewarded Tammany's O'Connor for his long public service (eight House terms) by picking him as their party's nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish and attainments, but no political experience. Not for generations has this G.O.P. nomination been considered worth the red fire to illuminate its defeat, but with a Tammany Irishman carrying it, with perhaps 8,000 anti-Roosevelt Democrats swinging in behind the Republican voters, the Gashouse district may well retain...
...after studying the Godesberg Demands, rejected them to the extent of saying it would refuse to cede the Sudetenland under Hitler's new terms, but not to the extent of refusing further negotiation. It did not take back the Czechoslovak acceptance of the Berchtesgaden Plan. According to the Polish and Hungarian Governments, the Czechoslovak Government informed them this week that it was also ready to negotiate their claims to parts of Czechoslovakia...
...Polish Will Come...
...polish of the reserves, the scribes have been very hard on them. Much too hard, we believe, on such men as center Jim Fearon, guard Bill Coleman, tackle Mose Hallett, end Win Jameson, and wingbacks Bob Burnett and Ray Jones. They need only the polish which will come from game experience...
Ignace Jan Paderewski (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC-Blue). Famed Polish pianist-patriot plays for the first time over U. S. radio, by short wave from Lausanne, Switzerland, for the Magic...