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Word: slawoj (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will be the Inspector-General of the Army, Edward Rydz-Smigly. He will outrank the Premier himself and all his Cabinet members, and his orders are to be obeyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Dictator's Ghost | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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