Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after the gold seizure Joseph T. Higgins, local Collector of Internal Revenue, slapped income tax liens for $740,000 on Zelik Josefowitz, Z. Josefowitz and Frieda Josefowitz of Zurich, Switzerland; for $258,000 on Gregori Josefowitz, care of Lawrence Mead, 20 Place Vendôme, Paris; for $24.50 on Selman Josefowitz, also of Zurich. The two major items consisted of 1934, 1935 and 1936- taxes of $573,000 plus penalties...
...Another special steamed out of Munich and, over cleared tracks with all switches spiked, roared down toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...
...years," continued Orator Hitler warming to his speech, "the hate-filled might of our Jewish enemies was often successful in using some Germans as tools against Germans unselfishly devoted to the Fatherland. It was a proud page in the history of the Swiss and for the Germans living in Switzerland that no German and no Swiss could be found to do this deed. The instigator himself had to do it-the Jew! "You, Wilhelm Gustloff, enter the ranks of our nation's immortal martyrs!" concluded Adolf Hitler. "Gustloff will be the patron saint of all Germans living abroad...
Cards both ancient and modern, coming from almost all the countries of the civilized world, are included in the bequest. The largest, of American make, measures 12 inches high by 8 inches wide; the smallest, coming from Switzerland, is only one-half by three-quarters of an inch. A unique item is a pack of modern round cards, which the manufacturer asserts are waterproof...
...sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event at Lake Placid in 1932, and Reto Capadrutt of Switzerland, both of whom averaged...