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Poles under sentence to hang were worried. They know that a noose smartly drawn up (with knot close under one ear of the condemned) will bring instant, pain less death, by snapping the neck. Such have been the nooses of experienced Hangman Maciejewski, a onetime medical student. On the other...
Who did the above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and...
Few Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King...
Two pregnant rumors and a potent fact perturbed Poles last week.
Balloting. Thirty-four parties crowded the field, an average of slightly more than one political group per million Poles. To meet competition thus keen, the Sanatzia or Healthy Politics party, supporting Pilsudski, adopted quaint & questionable expedients: