Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided to become a doctor, went through Harvard Medical School. Afterwards he went to Johns Hopkins Hospital and studied abroad. In Switzerland he was inspired by great Surgeon Theodor Kocher to enter the field of neurology. His inspiration burned with icy clarity...
...married on a $2,000-a-year income from Stone & Webster. Slowly his salary rose to $40,000, but debts rose faster. First his wife had a $1,500 operation. Then his son got tuberculosis and Viggo Bird borrowed $9,000 to finance a cure in Switzerland. Just before 1929 his brother lost $30,000 belonging to their mother. Viggo Bird assumed the debt...
...piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed the lead of his father and of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor-married an American woman. Marguerite Branyen. The words the Maharaja chose were strangely reminiscent...
Southward Bound. The traditionally neutral Swiss had a real week-end scare when alarming news came over the border that the Reich had been massing more than 200,000 troops around Lake Constance, to the north, and near the Swiss eastern frontier. Switzerland's border guard was doubled, border roads and bridges were mined and anti-aircraft guns were in position in Basel, Zurich and other big cities. To allay popular fears the Swiss Federal Council appealed for calm, issued a statement that "rumors concerning an immediate menace to Switzerland, whether direct or indirect, are without foundation...
Britain had planned a pious milk-&-water declaration against further aggression. But the nations on Adolf Hitler's list of probable victims wanted a hard-&-fast promise of military help. Moreover, The Netherlands and Switzerland, remembering that France had once sworn to defend Czecho-Slovakia and that both France and England had talked about guaranteeing dismembered Czecho-Slovakia's frontiers, let it be known that they are not interested in French and British guarantees at all. Rumania's pistol-point signature to an economic alliance with Germany showed what that country thought of the "Stop Hitler" campaign...