Word: polonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from Brussels toward Germany. Two days later all had jolted to earth with Poland's Polonia II and Belgium's Belgica farthest (both about 870 mi.) from the start. But Germany hotly filed a protest and a demand that the race be run over, claiming that Czechoslovakian planes had forced down two of the three German balloons. Czechoslovakia replied that its pilots were merely waving...
When the story reached Poland, vanloads of police descended upon the offices of the Warsaw Kurjer Codzienny and of the Katowice Polonia, seized every copy of their editions rehashing the Referee's story of the Negri-Hitler affair...
...hear Artur Rodzinski conduct again. Critics who heaped praise on Soprano Pauly last week did not forget Conductor Rodzinski whose eloquent musicianship made Elektra one of the great triumphs of the season. An other honor came to Rodzinski two days later when Ambassador Jerzy Potocki pinned on him the Polonia Restituta, Poland's highest order of merit...
...Distinguished Service Medal with two silver star citations for gallantry in action, the French War Cross with three palms and the Italian Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Commander of the French Legion of Honor, the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Order of Polonia Restituta. Said Brother Maurice Goldblatt: "Naturally . . . we feel very fortunate in being able to get a man like General Parker. With his army training and his reputation as a leader he should prove a great asset to Goldblatt Brothers. The general will make his headquarters in our new State Street Store...
...America Line, consolidating all lines under one central management, subsidized if necessary by the Government. One Polish specialty is taking U. S. Jews by ship to Gdynia, by train to the Black Sea port of Constantsa (Rumania), by Polish ship again to Palestine Three old liners, Kosciuszko, Pulaski and Polonia, have been put on the Constantsa-Haifa and South American routes, leaving the North Atlantic to the Pilsudski and Batory...