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Glistening like huge soap bubbles in the sunshine, 13 gas bags from seven nations drifted up from Warsaw one afternoon last week in the 23rd annual International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race. Last away was Polonia of Poland, winning nation in 1933 and 1934. Wise in the ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Polonia | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Brimful of Jews, mostly from Adolf Hitler Land, the Polish immigrant steamer Polonia and the Italian Martha Washington made warily for Palestine this week, only to turn back when frantic radio warnings were flashed by British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope who had practically an Arab insurrection on his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Jews Not wanted | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Commandeur, 1912, Grand Officier, 1921; Order of Red Eagle (with star) of Prussia, 1910; Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer, ist Class (Greece), 1918; Grand Cross Order of St. Sava, ist Class (Jugoslavia), 1919: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold (Bel-gium), 1921; Grand Officer Order of Polonia Restituta. 1923; Commander of Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Italy), 1924; Grand Cross Order of the Crown of Roumania, 1927: Order of the White Lion, ist Class (Czechoslovakia), 1027. loudly Dr. Butler trumpets for Peace, the Republican Party and Repeal of the 18th Amendment. Famed is his work with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Morningside's Miracle | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: A Pigsty for the Sejm! | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

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