Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Hoover, since he sailed from Manhattan on Feb. 9, has been honored in Europe by the governments of 15 nations: Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and the Scandinavian countries. ''There is more combustible material about than in 1914,'' said he in London last week, "but statesmen are more generally alive to the dangers than in 1914. None of the principal nations will be ready with their war preparations for two or three years. Most statesmen and soldiers recognize that nobody wins in a great modern war. There...
...Newly-married Prince von Starhemberg (TIME, Dec. 13) was reported last week in Switzerland. His mother, 62-year-old Fanny Starhemberg, was arrested for her work in Schuschnigg's Fatherland Front women's organization, was later released and put under " protective custody...
Camille Chautemps said, "I hope to get in a little skiing in Switzerland, but hélas for the moment the President has asked me to remain here," thus coyly suggesting he may soon again be Premier...
...real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths of an ounce of male sex hormone called "androsterone"; 2) when Leopold Ruzicka of Switzerland manufactured a similar substance "testosterone" from the fat of sheep's wool (TIME, Sept...
...events, no time was ever quite as interesting as the present. In Europe, a new balance of power is emerging; in the Far East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western...