Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basle, Switzerland, where most of the railroads of central Europe crisscross, met last week for their first official session the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements...
...Pierre Quesnay is the enfant terrible of the sedate Bank of France. He is only 35. He refuses to grow a beard. Among his hirsute colleagues the rise of this "boy" is considered almost a scandal. In Basle, Switzerland, last week the august board of the new Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), formed as "The Cash Register of German Reparations" (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.), solemnly met and all but unanimously elected Beardless Pierre Quesnay to be general manager of the bank...
...where they will sing under the patronage of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and place a wreath on the tomb of David Livingstone in memory of his services to Africans; go thence to Antwerp, Brussels, The Hague, Amsterdam, Paris, Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin, Vienna and back to Paris by way of Switzerland. Unlike many a Negro musical organization the Hampton Choir can claim distinction for its singing of classical as well as of racial music. An ambitious list of classical choruses will be combined with spirituals on the European programs arranged by Negro R. Nathaniel Dett, smart, sophisticated leader of the choir...
Vienna, home of music and schnitzeln, is also the home of psychoanalysis. Dr. Sigmund Freud, lives there. So does Dr. Alfred Adler. Switzerland's Charles Gustave Jung pays frequent visits. The corridors of the special Psychological Clinics teem with their satellites...
Headed by Lieut. James Harold Doolittle, resigned crack Army pilot (TIME, Feb. 3), the delegation will visit Greece, Turkey, the Balkan countries, Poland. Scandinavian countries and Switzerland...