Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Next?" In the remaining full gold standard countries, France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, nervous public opinion echoed the Manchester Guardian which editorially exclaimed "After Belgium, what next...
After graduating with an A.B. in 1920, he held a Sheldon travelling fellowship and studied in France, Italy, Switzerland and England. When the fellowship expired he returned as an instructor and in 1923 get an A.M. and in 1924 a Ph.D. For the next two years he taught at Bryn Mawr and then studied at the University of Chicago on a National Research Fellowship. Since then he has studied at the Rice Institute, Texas, and the University of Minnesota, and has also returned to head the mathematics department...
...likes skiing, skating, bobsledding. at which he is proficient enough to negotiate Switzerland's Cresta Run. He still wears the heavy gold identification bracelet his mother gave him when he was mobilized for Army duty in 1917. In Hollywood, where he still finds cinema work more satisfactory than in France, Charles Boyer last week finished acting in Paramount's Private Worlds, with Claudette Colbert. Last fortnight, rehearsing a scene which called for him to topple into an orchestra pit, he broke two ribs...
...device which bears his name was toiling obscurely as a civilian radio engineer employed by the Army at Wright Field (Dayton, Ohio) at a salary of some $3,400 a year. Geoffrey Gottlieb Kruesi, having revolutionized long-distance flying, is at 38 neither rich nor famed. Born in Switzerland (his father was a butcher), he studied engineering at Zurich Polytechnic Institute, arrived in the U. S. 15 years ago. In California he worked under Dr. Frederick August Kolster, famed "father of the radio compass," at Federal Telegraph Co., Palo Alto...
What was more, the gloom was worldwide. Heads of the European central banks gathered at a board meeting of the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland, found fundamental conditions growing worse in every important economic area of the earth (see p. 20). After the meeting a New York Times correspondent wrote: "There is no feeling of despair and no fear of an immediate catastrophe anywhere, however. Pessimism comes from the continued lack of any indication of improvement in the basic factors . . . and discouragement from the fact that every one, despite all efforts made, feels he is forever fighting...