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...Berlin where he likes to drive his Bugath very fast around the Avus race track, spends six months a year in Switzer-The Significance. Like All Quiet, The Road Back will startle no one by its originality. It preaches no new gospel, but expresses well what often was thought before. Both books have followed already existing types: the War novel, the postWar. But after reading The Road Back you feel as you may have felt after reading All Quiet: that the subject has now been adequately covered, that the controversy may now cease. The language in The Road Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home, Boys, Home-- | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Visalia, Cal., Wayne Switzer, county surveyor, bet $2 on the Leland Stanford football team against Southern California with one Alden Jones. When he lost, Better Switzer paid Better Jones a piece of flypaper with 200 pennies stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Patent War | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...statement more positive than this double negative would have given Switzer land ground for offense; but Chancellor Seipel had made his meaning crystal clear. He heads a Republican Government which would gladly offer to the League for a headquarters the old, enormous, sumptuous Imperial Palace of the Habsburgs at Vienna. Thus the League would save itself the expense of building a new headquarters at Geneva to replace the present ramshackle Secretariat and the mouldering Salle de la Reformation (where the Assembly sits). Reputedly the League has considered spending ?1,000,000 on its proposed new buildings and most of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Sugar Plum | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

John D. Rockefeller: "The Chicago Daily Tribune ran the headline: MRS. MAX OSER TO MAKE JOHN D. GREAT-GRAN'DAD. The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau. The interesting family event is expected soon after Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Sep. 17, 1923 | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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