Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirited Albert Eugene Gallatin has presented to New York University, there appeared The Three Musicians,* a semi-abstract painting of three masked figures, two in motley, one in a monk's cowl, seated on a bench playing a violin, clarinet and accordion. Formerly in the Reber Collection in Switzerland, it is the most important Picasso decoration to reach the U. S. in many years...
Famed for his ''introvert'' and "extravert" classifications, Switzerland's great Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung last week branched out into psychopolitical analysis, announced in London: "I have just come from America, where I saw Roosevelt. Make no mistake, he is a force-a man of superior and impenetrable mind, but perfectly ruthless, a highly versatile mind which you cannot foresee. He has the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely...
Gold Fever is the work of Lewis Mariano Nesbitt (The Hell Hole of Creation) who was killed last year in an airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
...Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugénie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt. Whether or not Victoria Eugénie will now have to rush to her sick son in Switzerland, her sick son in Manhattan was feeling much better last week, except about his income which he receives in French francs. Applying for reduction of the $250 per month alimony he pays to a Cuban commoner, he urged the judge to make this cut because the franc has just been...
Died. Ras Dedjazmatch Nassibu, 42, doughty Ethiopian General who for seven months fought Italy's invading General Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, April 27 et ante); of tuberculosis brought on by inhaling Italian poison gas; in Davos-Platz, Switzerland...