Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during the War, that the stock was sold for some $7,000,000, and that in 1921 a Swiss corporation, really a blind for the German owners, recovered the money from the U. S. Government with the connivance of the indicted men. It is further charged that the German owners gave $391,000 in Liberty bonds, which were to be divided among the accused men, and a check...
...movement started in Great Britain, and spread from there, taking a very strong hold in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. It has proved especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...
Orthodox members of the fashionable Parisian Cercle de I' Escrime (Fencing Club) all but wept last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
British, French, Germans, Austrians, Belgians, Canadians, Czechs, Chileans, Dutchmen, Italians, Norwegians, Poles, Russians, Swedes, Swiss, Japanese-the Commissioners assembled-after some annoyances from Customs officials, who fancied that packing cases full of scientific documents might be dutiable-in the Engineering Societies' Building with their U. S. colleagues. Secretary Hoover of the U. S. Department of Commerce called up by telephone from Washington to say, through an amplifier, how sorry he was not to be able to welcome them in person. Guido Semenza of Italy, the Commission's president, replied. There were formal words of greeting from the heads...
...Leibstenwhohnen Wolf Miss Hempel I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-veda Holst Hymn to Agni, Hymn to Indra, Hymn to Manas Saltarelle Saint-Sains Harvard Glee Club Grand Aria Adi Bravusa Onorba leggiera Meyerbier Folk Songs O! du Liebe Angeli, Swiss Concon, Canari Jalloux, Neuchatel LAuterbach, German Nightingale, Russian Miss Hempel Mother Moscow Tschesnokor La Garde Passe, from "Les Deux Avares" Gretry Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, from "Samson" Handel Harvard Glee Club