The portly kiosk women of Warsaw, genial news venders, beamed red and perspiring last week in their little booths, changed many a hastily proffered zloty, sold twice their usual quota of newspapers.
Boulevardeurs discussed the news over cafe tables placed beneath the lime-trees of the broad Ujazdowska Aleja. Polish Jews rubbed expectant palms over their newspapers in the tumbledown Stare Miasto quarter. Money was coming to Poland, the headlines told, much money, three hundred millions of dollars.
This sum was announced as the staggering marriage dot of the daughter of Henry Ford. She, tender, susceptible, had yielded to the suit of...
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