Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Writing to the Bank for International Settlements (custodian of the Young Plan at Basle, Switzerland) the German Government politely hailed President Hoover's "farsighted initiative" in arranging his One-Year Moratorium, but continued with asperity: "The hope that this . . . would mean a definite turn in the world crisis did not materialize. . . . The Hoover year alone was unable to dispel the danger of a collapse...
...They exchange little conversation because Busch speaks almost no Italian, Toscanini almost no German. But they spend a great deal of time gazing at one another in affectionate admiration. When the Philharmonic toured Europe a year ago last spring, Busch attended almost all the concerts. Toscanini has traveled from Switzerland to Milan to hear Busch's famed string quartet...
...football coach for the Muskegon (Mich.) High School. For the past 18 years he has coached at the University of Illinois. But he never gave up art. He has exhibited many times at the Chicago Art Institute and with private dealers. He makes trips to the Rockies and to Switzerland to paint forests and mountains. Intensely supersti tious, he puts five thin rings on his index finger at the beginning of each football season, keeps them in that order until his team loses a game, shifts them from finger to finger in various combinations until the team wins again. Year...
From Basle, Switzerland, sagacious Banker Wiggin, whom all Wall Street respectfully calls "Al," had issued a report that was very embarrassing to President Hoover. Mr. Wiggin and his European colleagues had decided not only that the Hoover one-year moratorium is insufficient but also that high (i. e. Republican) tariffs in the U. S. should come down...
...over a world that was not molded very near to their hearts' desire. For a while it looks as though everything would go badly for everybody. Pauline tries to break off her affair with Julian's father when she has to take her own invalid parent to Switzerland. Prying grown-ups catch Julian and Hildegarde taking a perfectly innocent sun bath after a swim. Hilclegarde's mother whisks her abroad; Julian in sick despair drives his rickety old motorbike over a cliff, tries to make it look like an accident. That clears the air; everything goes better...