Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese delegate Kenkichi Yoshizawa from actually clawing each other's throats. League Secretary Sir Eric Drummond put the furious Orientals for a time in separate rooms. In a third room (while European members of the Council sat in a fourth) was the U. S. "observer," Minister to Switzerland Hugh R. Wilson. Mr. Wilson disagreed with Dr. Sze that Japan had violated the Kellogg Pact. The Council agreed with Mr. Yoshizawa that the matter was one for direct negotiation between Japan and China. "Particularly." soothed Britain's Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, "as Mr. Yoshizawa assures us that Japan...
...There shall be no discrimination as to age, race, nationality, sex, creed or color of the beneficiaries of such purposes." Macfadden activities to be taken over immediately by the Foundation are a sanatorium at Dansville, N. Y., a military school at Castle Heights, Tenn., physical culture demonstrations in Switzerland and Portugal...
...devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn as its president, helps young U. S. musicians get ahead. Last month he represented U. S. organists at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland...
When she arrived in Manhattan last week, after a trip from Lake Constance, Switzerland, which has taken almost ten months, the monster Dornier flying boat DO-X (pronounced: dough-icks) stirred and surprised a city which had long ceased to be impatient for her arrival. The deep vehemence of her twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors beat down like a whole squadron of ordinary planes, stilling the clamor of streets and avenues as she passed over. People, peering from windows and sidewalks were amazed at a hull which is three winged Pullman sleepers in capacity. The shadow...
Laggard, The DO-X, largest flying boat, last week resumed her laggard nine-month journey from Switzerland. Proceeding by easy stages from Belem, Brazil, where two motors had been replaced, she paused at San Juan to pick up a passenger. He was George Washington Grouse. Syracuse, N.Y. grocer, onetime passenger on the Graf Zeppelin. So eager was he to extend his accomplishments that he had waited two weeks for the arrival of the DO-X. After a stop at Cuba, the DO-X settled comfortably at Miami. Riding at anchor in Biscayne Bay, she was inspected by hordes of curious...