Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker McGarrah would not comment. Friends spoke of the "great sacrifice" it would be for him to quit his august Federal Reserve post; but few thought that he would not choose to go to Switzerland and shoulder Europe's great task...
...week, that the governors of Europe's great central banks of issue have told Gates W. McGarrah, now board chairman ol the New York Federal Reserve Bank, that they wish to elect him board chairman of the new Bank for International Settlements soon to be set up in Basle, Switzerland, as "the cash register of German reparations" (TIME, March...
...plot involves a war between the U. S. and Switzerland caused by a tariff on milk chocolate, but the absurdities that you expect from this idea are never quite realized. Furthermore, the costumes were apparently designed by someone who realized that lengthier skirts were in order, even upon the stage, but did not know how to compensate for non-exposure. The settings exhibit various unhappy juxtapositions of color...
...Switzerland, four patrons of a hairdresser who kept a parrot in his shop died. In Geneva, the League of Nations' International Labor Office and the Bureau of Industrial Hygiene instructed Dr. Luigi Carozzi to make an investigation of typhus des perruches...
Awarded. To the League of Nations; the annual Woodrow Wilson Foundation Peace Prize of $25,000. The Foundation hoped the money would be used for Wilson memorial doors in the League's $5,000,000 headquarters (TIME, Sept. 16), now abuilding at Geneva, Switzerland...