Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After being flogged 32 times at Eton, the present Lord Lonsdale ran away from his family, made his living in Switzerland for 18 months as an acrobat and circus rider. He is rated the best judge of horseflesh in Britain's peerage and the second best judge of cigars. Aged 77, he claims to have started the Klondike gold rush on an early visit to the U. S., gravely insists that he once saw a school of authentic mermaids...
...effect Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic President of the Reichsbank, has cut the interest payments on German bonds held in the U. S. by refusing to let the full amount of payment be transferred out of Germany. Switzerland and Holland, by agreeing to increase their imports of German goods, have received full and preferential interest transfers. As for Adolf Hitler, one of his war cries has been against the iniquity of "interest slavery," the payment of interest being tainted in his mind with a stigma not unlike that attached by President Roosevelt to hoarding. So hot grew the squabbling...
...slender, golden-haired youth who had begun to doubt whether he could ever achieve a concert career. Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
Paderewski was no piano prodigy. His hands were small, his fingers stubby. When he started taking lessons he could hardly span an octave, preferred to romp with his sister Antonina who at 75 still keeps house for him in Switzerland. As a 12-year-old he went to the Conservatory in Warsaw and there a dozen moppets matched him in all save patience and determination...
Died, Helena Paderewska, 74, wife of Pianist-composer Ignace Jan Paderewski; after two years' illness; in the Paderewski villa at Merges. Switzerland. She became the pianist's second wife in 1899 and until her illness was his constant companion on all his tours, sitting backstage at every concert. In Wartime she started looking after Polish ''War brides" and their children, established an asylum for 500 of them at Warsaw...