Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial entered its third week, it tended to emerge from the so-called international (German-Swiss) stage and settle down to the important business of finding out what cash, checks or bribes (if any) were paid to Messrs. Daugherty and Miller for allowing the American Metal Co. stock to be transferred. Herein lies their "conspiracy" or their innocence...
...slipped away from Geneva by motor one afternoon last week. Wily Foreign Minister Briand of France went for a boat ride, was met some miles from Geneva by Dr. Stresemann's motor. Chuckling at the success of their ruse to deceive newsgatherers, they were driven swiftly across the Swiss border to the tiny French mountain village of Thoiry. There they sought a snug inn famed for its cuisine, the Chalet Russe...
...Briand afterwards admitted that the Chalet's bustling waiters placed before them fresh caught mountain trout, roast chicken, sausages, peas (served as a separate course in France) and a basket heaped with fruit. What they munched was washed down in good Swiss wine. What they said was later hinted at in an official communique...
...December, 1920, a representative of the Swiss company wrote an attorney in New York that it had acquired the control of the Metallbank and the Metallgesellschaft in the fall of 1919 and therefore it was entitled to the $7,000,000 held by the Alien Property Custodian...
...attorney answered this letter by stating that the transfer of control after the War did not legalize a claim. That the Swiss company would have to prove ownership prior to April 6, 1917, our entrance into...