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...authors have hit on a cleverer or more effective scheme for telling a story than Author Goetel's. His book starts in the form of a diary written by Stanislaw, Cracow novelist. The Cracow he inhabits is a city of postWar, united, republican Poland, but before the War it belonged to Austria. Stanislaw, a man without a country, fought for the Austrians against his Russian-Polish compatriots...
...introduced to the U. S. by Author John Galsworthy as "a leading Polish author, a man of charm, energy and experience, a traveler, a mountain-climber, a writer of great gifts, whose work has been acclaimed in Poland. France and Germany." Like his hero, Author Goetel lives in Cracow, during the War was interned as a prisoner by the Russians, was sent to Asiatic Russia to work as a laborer, and met a Polish girl there. Unlike his hero, he married the girl. When you have read From Day to Day you will agree with Introducer Galsworthy it was high...
...Excellency the President of Poland, Ignatz Moscicki, received last week a request. Meeting at Cracow, ancient seat of the Kings of Poland, some 20,000 Poles had signed the request. They included 160 Deputies representing six Parliamentary parties and 5,000,000 ballots...
...nation's confidence in law has been shaken and Parliament has been silenced," declared a manifesto adopted unanimously by the Cracow mass meeting. "For four years the will of the Dictator, Marshal Pilsudski, has been imposed upon succeeding Cabinets and upon the President himself. . . . The nation must mobilize in defense of Freedom. . . . Ignatz Moscicki should resign...
...young brother, to him and her a distasteful hypocrisy. Engineering he studied at Paris's College of Bridges & Highways (where he graduated at the head of his class with honors) and at the University of Illinois (Illinois gave him his Civil Engineer de gree) then he hastened to Cracow, Poland, his birthplace, to marry Felicie Benda, childhood friend. As the Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, he opened Chicago offices as a consulting engineer. Chicago has been his headquarters ever since. Thence he has traveled to design and build great bridges at Portland, Ore., St. Louis...