Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison...
...Born in Switzerland, Composer Bloch is a U. S. citizen. His last symphonic work, America, is a patriotic outburst in the manner of Walt Whitman (TIME...
...Service Committee, a position which he has held during the past year. On February 28 Amazeen attended the conference of college Christian organizations in Poland Springs, Maine, Birge, who is a graduate of Groton School, has headed the Library Committee since March, 1929. Parker, who attended preparatory school in Switzerland, was the Phillips Brooks House representative at the Students International Union Summer School at Geneva last summer...
Engineers added additional facts. The longest vehicular tunnel in the world at the present time is the 12-mile Simplon tunnel in Switzerland. With its approaches, the Channel Tunnel would be nearer 40 than 20 miles long. It should take about eight years to build, would employ about 7,000 British workmen...
Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, National Broadcasting Co. orchestra director, received word from his daughter, Mrs. Alice Damrosch Pennington, that she had won the gold ski award at the Parsann ski derby for women, at Davos, Switzerland...