Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open to any young man with stout legs, strong lungs and a fondness for an energetic vacation at someone else's expense. Entrants must all have proved their mettle in other major contests. The 1934 field is composed of five national teams-France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain-Switzerland - of eight men each, and 20 independents (les isoles). Since the war Belgians have won the race six times, Frenchmen five times, an Italian twice, a Luxembourger twice...
...Eugene O. Sykes and Thad H. Brown, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the now defunct Federal Radio Commission, and added Paul Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James M. Landis on the Federal Trade Commission...
Because he ran away from his family to become a circus acrobat in Switzerland and a cowboy in the U. S. before his father died and an earldom descended heavily upon him, Lord Lonsdale gives a party to circus folk once a year. Last week he attended one given to the bandy-legged members of a U. S. rodeo troupe now touring England. Cables flashed and the Empire was shocked when His Grace, at the climax of hilarity, boasted: "I remember Denver when it was only one shack. When I first saw Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming, there was only...
...house of Habsburg-Lorraine last fortnight sent a stalking horse back into the Austrian Republic which had banned all Habsburg-Lorraines who had not renounced their claims to the throne. A tall, white-chinned man of 71 with the Habsburg horse face, he stepped off the train from Switzerland at Vienna's West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens...
...Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs...