Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chill afternoon of Feb. 4 last, Saint Gustloff was sitting in his home in Switzerland where for many years he had been spreading the Germanic gospel as a Nazi missionary. Suddenly the door opened and in walked a 26-year-old Yugoslav youth, David Frankfurter, whose blue eyes and rosy cheeks gave him the appearance of a respectable Aryan. As he entered the room he heard Saint Gustloff spitting into the telephone: "Ah, these pigs of Jews and Communists, we will see an end of them!" This was too much for David Frankfurter, who calmly plucked a revolver from...
...Chur, Switzerland, last week Jew Frankfurter stood trial before five sombre-robed judges whose duty was to decide whether or not he had shot Saint Gustloff "in high emotion born of natural cause." If he had acted "in high emotion" the killing would be condoned under Article 50 of the Swiss Criminal Code. With the air of one enjoying the star part in a stage play, David Frankfurter declaimed: "I read Der Stunner, that notorious anti-Semitic German organ, in which there are written things too revolting for any human being to endure whether he be Jew or Gentile...
...sold $3,449,000,000 worth. Net purchase: $905,000,000. Of this, $633,000,000 is now invested in U. S. securities, $272,000,000 in foreign securities traded on U. S. markets. Britain was the biggest buyer on balance ($341,000,000), followed by Switzerland ($153,000,-00), The Netherlands ($130,000,000), France...
...Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled on in her letters to her father, with all the garrulousness Adams ascribed to her, but with a humor for which Adams did not give her credit, about their visits to great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland. She was less impressed than John Adams' grandson by many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little...
...providing Father Svensson would write a book about his trip, obtain a reputable doctor's assurance that his health was perfect, pay his own way. Father Svensson in good shape save for a touch of rheumatism in one leg, raised money for his trip by lecturing in France, Switzerland, Germany, set out for Japan via the U. S. and Canada...