Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tariff law does not permit most-favored-nation treatment." This should be read as meaning "on the principle of reciprocity." The U. S. has concluded most-favored-nation treaties with Hungary, Estonia, Germany. Negotiations for similar treaties are under way with: Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Guatemala, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Jugoslavia, Honduras. Modus-vivendi agreements extending most-favored-nation treatment are in effect with: Albania, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Poland, Rumania. Turkey...
...Chile, President of the eighth Assembly. Count Albert Dietrichstein Mensdorff-Pouilly of Austria was thus narrowly de- feated. Past Presidents in order of incumbency: Paul Hymans, Belgium, 1920; Herman Adriaan Van Karnebeek, the Netherlands, 1921; Augustine Edwards, Chile, 1922; Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza, Cuba, 1923; Giuseppe Motta, Switzerland, 1924; Senator Raoul Dandurand, Canada, 1925; Mont-chilo Nintchitch, Jugoslavia...
...Henry Ford's Detroit Airport peering upward at round blobs in the sky. Official Starter Edsel Ford had sent away 15 balloons in the 16th annual Gordon Bennett trophy race. The U. S. and Germany each had three balloons; France, Belgium and Italy two each; England, Spain and Switzerland...
Dikran Kuyumjian ("Michael Arlen"), novelist, was reported ill, despondent, trying to gather strength in Switzerland for an operation, his second within two years, which was "expected to diminish his nervous vitality...
...score of the biggest noses for news from all over the world gathered last week at Geneva, Switzerland...