Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Ignaz Jan Paderewski, peerless pianist, onetime (1919) Prime Minister of Poland; at Lausanne, Switzerland, where he is recuperating from an appendectomy...
...basis of equal representation of population groups. Great Britain and her dependencies would contribute to the world federation something like one-fourth of the population, the greater part of which is not English. That is a great morsel for a union of countries in which, for example, Finland and Switzerland and Greece are to have in some respects an equal status with Great Britain. Furthermore, the question of foreign trade and tariffs is one in which the interests of Great Britain have for the last hundred years been very different from those of the other countries...
Born. To Secretary & Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. Legation at Berne, Switzerland; a daughter, Edith Alice Pierrepont. Mrs. Moffat is the daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. ambassador to Turkey...
...Last week he was 37½ years old. If he had walked four miles every hour since he was two and able to romp, not yet would he have trod 1,250,000 miles. 170 Passengers, greatest air load ever, flew for 100 miles over Lake Constance, Switzerland, on a trial flight of the 12-motored Dornier DO-X. Football Specials. Colonial Air Transport last week decided to operate special planes to Boston and New Haven for big football games there. Great Lakes Aircraft at Cleveland decided to send at least one plane to Ohio State University's major...
...bilingual twist, the new governor's speech might not have been considered extraordinary. The Colonel recalled how his late, great father, only U. S. president to visit Porto Rico, had called the island "the Switzerland of America." He referred to his duties as ''our work," asked for "team-play, shoulder to shoulder...