Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of Paraguay, Dr. Jose P. Guggiari, was born in Lugano, Switzerland, where the council of the League of Nations was in session last week. President Guggiari harangued no mobs. With Swiss calm he called Congress into extraordinary session, proceeded quietly with mobilization. The excited members of his cabinet urged that every able bodied man or boy between 18 and 28 be called to the colors. The President said...
...bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive to Italians, Swiss and Frenchmen these record facilities seemed ridiculous in comparison with the fact that in Great Britain the famed "Flying Scotsman" chuffs from London to Edinburg daily at an average speed...
...scenic grandeur the perpetually snowcapped peaks of Ecuador easily eclipse the Swiss Alps-but only hardiest humans have ever glimpsed Ecuador's grandest vastitudes. Historically the city and the civilization at Quito antedate Columbus and hark back to glorious Inca times. Politically the Republic of Ecuador has been unfortunate. President after President has seized office by violence. Eleven Constitutions have been adopted. Today President Isidro Ayora knows that he is at the beck of an aristocratic and military dictatorship, headed by the potent General Gobez...
Abysmally ignorant U. S. news organs told that the train wrecked was the Simplon-Orient Express. The distinction, nice, between the Orient and the Simplon-Orient is that although both run Balkan-ward from Paris through the Swiss Simplon Tunnel, the Orient later branches off to Bucharest, and the Simplon-Orient to Constantinople...
...lives were lost because smart Swiss geologists had predicted the landslide, and warned all inhabitants to leave the vicinity...