Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiating earnest goodwill over a plate of food and a glass of plain water. Currently an International Team of 700 Groupers led by Dr. Buchman has been working in Geneva, lobbying spiritually at many a meal. Their efforts seemed to reach a climax when they visited the President of Switzerland (TIME, Sept. 23), but last fortnight that visit was out-climaxed when Dr. Buchman and part of the Team ate luncheon with a good section of the League of Nations Assembly at the invitation of its President Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Among the 500 people whom smart...
Five Frenchmen are here, and Belgium and Turkey, with four apicce, are tied in fifth position. In addition there are three Mexicaus, three gcots, three Indians, three Greeks, two Cubans, two Italians, two from Canto Domiage, and one each from Austyia, Hungary, Ive-land, Japan, Norway, Poland, Puexto Bice, Switzerland, Russia, Spain, and Lithuauia, in all a total...
...where his taste for gracious living and long, jeweled cigaret holders excited admiring native comment. It will be his job to evolve a defense system for the 7,083 Philippine islands which will, as the Press put it last week, make it not an Asiatic Balkans but a "Switzerland of the Pacific...
...Martin Cambon, 90, "dean of French diplomats," onetime French Ambassador to the U. S. (1897-1901), Spain (1901-07), Germany (1907-14), able brother of able Pierre Paul Cambon who as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's laid the foundations of the Anglo-French entente; in Vevey, Switzerland...
...striking language, they marshaled forces to fight "The Second Battle of Jutland." They made an ally of Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard of Copenhagen, attracted large crowds and converted ("changed"), among others, a dentist, a chiropractor and a Copenhagen tap dancer. The Groupers were making more news last week in Switzerland where a team of 700 arrived to deal "spiritually" with the Ethiopian crisis...