Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent stamp to commemorate the Battle of White Plains. Colonel E. H. R. Green (son of the late Hetty Green), Charles N. Ams (whose collection of Gambia stamps is second to no other collection of Gambia stamps), Alfred F. Lichtenstein, Swiss stamp collector, Miss Ellen F. Nason of Claremont, N. H., collector of Arabian stamps, with all the special issues for Jeddah and Nejd -these and many more sent their best. But one and all, when they beheld a black and magenta stamp lying by itself in a case ten times...
...speak at least six languages. The Dutch rate high as linguists merely because, being surrounded by five different nations using different tongues, and depending upon them for commercial success, the Hollander is compelled to speak English. German, and French, and to understand Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians. The Swiss merchant must do business in French. English, German, and Italian and does. The Dutchman in Ceylon, Java, the islands of the South Seas, does not attempt to force the natives to learn his own languages; he learns theirs and gets the business...
This expansion of trade relations with non-English-speaking countries accents the fact that Americans are losing heavily through neglecting the study of languages, and yet striving to compete with German, Jewish, Swiss, and Dutch merchants who commence their preparation for business with those countries by learning their languages...
...German shore of German-Swiss Lake Constance. Not to be confused with Frederikshavn, Denmark...
...Story.* When Captain Frémont entered California in 1846, 25 troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...