Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rosika Schwimmer was born in Hungary in 1877. She became famed as a pacifist. Her eloquence induced Henry Ford to undertake his Peace-Ship trip in 1915. Once, under Count Karolyi's regime (1919) she was Hungary's minister to Switzerland. Eight years ago she settled permanently in the U. S., set up residence in Illinois. Two years ago she applied for U. S. citizenship, Question 22 of the application asks if the applicant, as a citizen, would bear arms in defense...
While merger meetings were being held throughout the land, representatives of six churches (Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, South, Society of Friends, Lutheran. Presbyterian) convened at Washington to discuss the report on Christian unity prepared in 1927 by the International Conference on Faith & Order at Lausanne, Switzerland. Next week, 100 nationally prominent laymen and clergy will meet at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., to discuss: "Next steps toward a united church." Last week's meetings...
...Mathilde McCormick Oser, daughter of Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, wife of Max Oser, onetime Swiss riding master, arrived in the U. S. last week on vacation from her home in Berne, Switzerland. With her were husband, son, daughter. It is her first visit since her widely publicized marriage, at the age of 18, in 1923. The Oser children were to meet Great-Grandfather Rockefeller...
...number of students enrolled in the School was 751, representing 169 colleges in the United States, besides 27 colleges abroad,--in Hawaii 1; the Philippines, 3; Austria, 1; Canada, 5; Egypt, 1; England, 3; France, 4: Hungary, 1; Japan, 3; Russia, 1; Sweden. 1; Switzerland, 2; Turkey, 1. Harvard College sent 112 students; Yale, 35; University of California, 26; Stanford University, 24; Dartmouth College, 22; Princeton University, 21; Williams College, 18; Brown University, 16; Bowdoin College, 15; and Massachusetts institute of Technology, 14. Students registered from 43 states, the District of Columbia, Hawall, the Philippines, and 19 foreign countries...
...Spring of 1917, Lenin, imprisoned in Switzerland, employed a "sealed train" of the Hohenzollerns in order to get to the Russian workers. . . . Imprisoned by the Thermidorians in Constantinople I employed the bourgeois press as a sealed train in order to speak the truth to the whole world...