Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew, a "career" man, has been in the foreign service for 24 years, in Egypt, Mexico City, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna, Berne, Copenhagen. He has been Minister to Denmark and to Switzerland, was Secretary of the American Peace Commission at Versailles, negotiated the Lausanne Treaty (not ratified by the Senate) with the Turkish Nationalist Government. It was also announced that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State, would succeed Mr. Grew as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Olds was once law partner of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...
Died. Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet, 38, famed cabaret dancer; from tuberculosis, in Lausanne, Switzerland. His dancing partners, two of whom he married, included: Joan Sawyer, his onetime wife Florence Walton, Leonora Hughes, Barbara Bennett and his widow Eleanor Ambrose...
Plans were announced yesterday for the tour to be conducted this summer by the National Student Federation of America. The trip will carry groups of American College students through France, Belgium and Switzerland, traveling under the auspices of the Federation, and conducting their itinerary from university towns as centers...
Like most impromptus, an international exposition of music which opened and held forth in Geneva, Switzerland, last fortnight without the elaborate preliminaries that usually precede international events, was hailed across Europe as something which must be often repeated, whatever it may next time lack of spontaneity...
President Motta of Switzerland addressed 150 celebrities at a dinner and the celebrities?including Mary Garden, the company of the Opera Comique (Paris) and the orchestra of the Paris Conservatory responded with evening after evening of inimitable entertainment? Pelleas and Melisande, played, acted and sung as never before; Cesar Franck's "Variations Symphoniques" executed by masterly Alfred Cortot; the Dresden Opera Company tilting friendliwise to excel their French friends. . . . It was a love feast as well as a music fest. And between rare performances the delegates might wander, as tourists may for weeks to come, among exhibits ranging from furniture...