Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thieves" were Count Lugi Lusignani, onetime President of the Bank of Parma; Giambattista Biaggi, Swiss Consul General at Genoa; and Professor Alessandro Groppali of the University of Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo...
...British diplomatic steamroller to an Oriental people was accordingly signalized last week when representatives of Turkey, Irak and Great Britain signed at Angora a ten-year pact of security and nonaggression, apportioning the Vilayet and Village of Mosul to Irak-the Turko-Irak frontier to be delimited by a Swiss chairmaned commission within six months, approximately as adjudicated by the League. Further treaty provisions: 1) Turkey to be granted 10% of the revenue of the Mosul oil fields for 25 years. 2) Turkey to be empowered to sell these revenue interests. 3) Mutual security among the contracting parties...
Engaged. Charles H. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. (meat, glue, fertilizer, gelatin, wool, leather, soap); to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano (Metropolitan and Chicago Opera, recently in concert). In Chicago she said: "American men are the loveliest to marry...
Warsavians gaped amazedly last week as Ignatz Moscicki, by birth a Pole, by title "Professor," by profession an engineer, by naturalization a Swiss, was elected President of Poland...
...delegation was for Wood, and the incident cost King his place as National Committeeman. His last appearance in the public eye was when he was indicted three weeks ago with Harry Micajah Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller for conspiracy in securing the payment of $7,000,000 to a Swiss corporation by the Alien Property Custodian - as a reward for which they were supposed to have received $441,000 (TIME, May 17). Dying, the former undertaker's clerk, left besides his family, the history of a unique career, a home in Bridgeport and another on Park Avenue...