Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle, owned by Mrs. Sherman Reese Hoyt of Katonah, N. Y., which has won the championships of Switzerland, France, England, the U. S. His owner is fond of telling the story of how Nunsoe Due de la Terrace last year dragged her on snowshoes to the Katonah railroad station in time to catch a train for Boston where he took Best of Breed in spite of frost-bitten...
...signatories. Both dead today, French & German Pollyannas M. Aristide Briand (A) and Dr. Gustaf Stresemann (B) received the Nobel Peace Prize, as did Britain's Austen Chamberlain (C) whom George V rewarded with the Garter. Pessimist Mussolini, who received nothing, was among the original Pact initialers at Locarno, Switzerland but did not come to London for the decorative affixing of signatures at the British Foreign Office. Afterward there was high tea at No. 11 Downing Street. The host: Winston Churchill (D), then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Extreme left and right, inimitable Lucy & Stanley Baldwin, he then Prime Minister, today...
...Switzerland has a new President every year. He is a member of the Cabinet, and even as President he attends to his duties as Minister of his Portfolio. For instance, President Minger still is Minister of War. After his term as President is over with the end of the year, he does not fade out of the political picture altogether, but still is a member of the Cabinet. The Vice President of the year automatically becomes President in the following year. In other words, Mr. Minger was Vice President during 1934, and this year's Vice President will...
Even this may be possible, Frenchmen readily agreed. They noted, however, that Saar folk have been shipping their francs in a mad rush to France, The Netherlands, Switzerland. Guesses of how much of the original 1,800,000,000 francs now remains in the Saar ran as low last week as 150,000,000. In the Saar meanwhile Nazis whacked together 350 booths in which Saar folk will be compelled to exchange for German marks any French francs or other foreign money they possess after March...
Zinoviev was with Lenin in the famed "sealed car" that brought them from Switzerland to start Russia's revolution. Later Comrade Zinoviev, raised by Dictator Lenin to head the Third International (Moscow's permanent base of operations for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy...