Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring only such small objects along as they could carry in their hands and pockets...
Potocki's talk, the first of a series of Polish culture programs sponsored by the Slavic Circle, is entitled "Poland and the World Crisis." At the present time he is principally concerned with arousing sympathy in this country for Poland in her new fight for liberation...
Michael Karpovich, assistant professor of History, Francis J. Whit field, assistant in Slavic, and Antoni Gronovicz, Polish poet, are among the other speakers on the half year program...
...Secretary. He recommended it to the Versailles Peace Conference. In the turmoil into which Eastern Europe was soon to be plunged, however, the Curzon line raveled. Poland invaded the Ukraine and occupied Kiev. After defeating their other foes the Bolsheviks finally counterattacked, pushed the Poles back almost to Warsaw. Polish emissaries at London screamed for help, but Prime Minister David Lloyd George, never before or since too fond of the Poles, reminded them that they were the original aggressors and turned a deaf ear. Finally the French agreed to help, the Russians were routed, and in the Treaty of Riga...
...Jews of Germany of $400,000,000, one-fifth of their estimated wealth. This capital levy was decreed by Economic Four-Year Plan Commissioner Field Marshal Goring as "punishment" for the assassination in Paris of German Embassy Secretary Ernst vom Rath by one Herschel Grynsz-pan, a young Polish Jew (TIME...