Word: golaz
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Switzerland is ruled by a seven-man Federal Council elected by its Parliament. Each year the Council gives one of its members the title of President. Chosen last week from the newly elected Council: onetime (1934) President Marcel Pilet-Golaz,* 49, lawyer, neutral (educated in both France and Germany), lieutenant colonel in the nation's civilian Army (whose 500,000 men have been under arms since September...
...Golaz is his wife's maiden name, adopted as is the custom of many Swiss...