Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German citizens remembering all too vividly the black days of inflation in 1923, were putting all their savings in foreign money, francs, pounds, dollars, and they wanted gold. Bank tellers reported that even paper dollars were spurned by the timorous. Wealthy German families were heading for Switzerland. The $100,000,000 emergency credit extended to Germany last month by the Bank of England, the Bank of France, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Bank for International Settlements, was coming due in less than a week...
...from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering...
...Haberlin's native Thurgau first sent him to the National Council (lower house). In 1920 he moved up to the Federal Council (comprised of President, Vice President and "Cabinet of Five"). In 1925 he was elected its vice president-and in Switzerland the vice president is customarily elected president the following year. Thus Dr. Haberlin was president in 1926, vice president again in 1930, is president today, may become vice president again, president again, and so ad infinitum...
...Clara Barton; as a Freethinker, I beg to state that the Red Cross as an organization was proposed and made effective by Henri Dunant, a Swiss Freethinker. Its flag was designed by him-a red cross on a white field, which is the reversion of the flag of Switzerland...
...bandages they were mutually invisible, so the Ma- harajah kissed her toe through the blanket. In Egypt she was taken to see a stomach-dance; "it looked horrid." But mostly her travels were in well-marked royal grooves: visits to England, appearances in Berlin, vacations in Southern France, Switzerland...