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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereafter M. Paderewski pushed the organization of Polish military training camps in the U. S. and Canada, raised a picked Polish National Guard of 22,000 Polish volunteers. With the sudden collapse of Germany he rushed to Warsaw, became Premier and "made" Poland in the sense that he obtained her recognition as a nation by all the Great Powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Corridor to Peace | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...Moulin, originally chosen to marry the couple, withdrew to hurry to Providence, R. I. to attend the sudden marriage of his son. Crossing Long Island Sound, the ferryboat broke flown, floated around for hours. The ferry boat finally floated back to Long Island, Dr. Du Moulin rushed to Locust Valley, performed the ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...loud crack the ring on the starboard cable broke. The Akron rolled to port like a porpoise. As the ship lurched, 100 sailors in the port ground crew dragged with all their might. Some even climbed up the grab lines the better to hold down the bouncing ship.* A sudden blast of air drove the ship up, jerked the crew into the air. Most of them dropped off, sprawled in a heap on the ground. One plunked down 20 ft., fractured his arm. But soaring rapidly the Akron jerked three sailors so high that they dared not let go. Struggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Three Men on a Rope | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...Fire!" The day had been warm, sunny, peaceful. Just before sunset Tokyo was terrified by the sudden dashing through her streets of four or five motorcars (one a commandeered taxicab) from which uniformed Japanese petty officers and cadets flung bundles of leaflets and hurled bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Purification by Pistols | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

...next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet will go for a Pullman porter, dead long before from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Native Opera | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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