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By emptying an urnful of Baltic sea water and dropping a ring of Gdynia amber into New York Harbor, Polish Coadjutor Bishop Dr. Karol Niemira on the Batory "married" the Baltic and the Atlantic, committing technical bigamy in as much as Poles and Rumania's King Carol last year...
The bracketing of Pilsudski and Batory is dear to Poles. Wearing much the same kind of walrus mustache as Josef Pilsudski, 16th Century King Istvan Batory, born a Hungarian, was smart enough in his brief, ten-year reign to try to expand Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas...
Czechoslovakia is a democracy but Spivak included a chapter on its terror because Czechoslovak peasants, like Poles, eat potatoes without salt, give up everything they have to tax collectors to pay for Czechoslovakia's huge Army.
Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level...
American Telephone & Telegraph, Western Union and Postal Telegraph rushed armies of troubleshooters into the field to unscramble their wrecked wires and poles. After 24 hours A. T. & T. reported more than 351,000 telephones still dead. Newspaper plants were awash; broadcasting stations went silent for lack of power as operators...