Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 24, 1936, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland indicated their adherence to the principles contained in the tripartite announcement, and these countries were added to the list of countries to which the United States would soil gold...
...they hold abroad (TIME, Dec. 14), the Government was able to announce last week that over $100,000,000 has been restored to the Reich. One smart German not long ago had a set of automobile tools made of platinum, soiled these with grease and dirt, went motoring to Switzerland, locked the tools in a safe deposit vault. Up to last week he had not yet lost his head, but Nazi secret police were mercilessly" on the trail...
...saved up for last week's Jubilee Durbar, creating Hyderabad's Crown Prince Azam Jah additionally Prince of Berar. Thus officially ended was the long dispute over Berar which was almost taken away from Hyderabad by domineering Viceroy Lord Curzon. Berar is about the size of Switzerland, immensely valuable because its peculiar soil produces the finest cotton which can be grown in India...
...portrait painted by the ardent Baroness Hilla Rebay. Born in Alsace, the daughter of a German general, the Baroness has studied painting all her life, was won to non-objectivity in 1914, some time after the Battle of the Marne. After working with other abstractionists in Switzerland, the Baroness came to the U. S. in 1926. Here she still paints objective portraits, for money, but scrupulously tells her clients, "I will paint a picture that looks like you, but it will...
...Rudolf Bauer entitled Tetraptychon (see p. 36), but he is also extremely fond of two pictures by a young artist known simply as Shwab. Shwab's exact birthplace, first name, parents and background have so far eluded research. According to the Baroness, he "lives in isolation in Switzerland...