Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland, since then has maintained a perfect attendance record at European conferences to which the U. S. sent delegations until the Nine-Power Conference at Brussels last month...
Part of Monastery, photographed by Jean Le Herissey and Jean Perine, deals with the life of St. Bernard monks in Switzerland. Most striking shot...
...Pittsburgh, Pa.; Henry F. Haviland, Jr., East Orange, N. J.; Albert C. Howell, Sandy Hook, N. J.; Charles D. B. Howell, Boston, Mass.; Ben B. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Liewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Ill.; Roland Kahn, New York, N. Y.; Herman A. J. Kiewiet de Jonge, Prangius, Switzerland; Frank W. Kroll, Elizabeth, N. J.; Paul B. Kurtz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Melvin Levine, Revere, Mass...
...golden yellow mold long known to botanists as Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over to Dr. Seifriz. Ever since his student days at Johns Hopkins and in England, Germany, Switzerland and France, William Seifriz had hankered for generous supplies of "naked proto-plasm." Physarum polycephalum filled the bill. In a lyrical moment Dr. Seifriz called it a "great big glorious handful...
...American musicomedy star involved in a muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth two in the distant Alps and Pianist Noble...