Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basle, Switzerland officials of the World Bank voiced conviction that the Roosevelt Administration in seizing the world's largest gold hoard would set a "bad example" to politicians of other countries...
Tenth, an effort should be made to avoid the difficulties of foreign exchange reserves by using an international institution like the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland as an agreed where the assets of gold-exchange countries might be deposited in part. The International Bank would in turn spread its deposits in the Central Banks of different countries as the requirements international exchange seemed to agitate...
...State of Prussia swarms with moppets godfathered by that baby-kissing Marxist, Dr. Otto Braun. For twelve years he was Prussia's Premier. He fled from Germany upon the rise of Adolf Hitler, languishes today with other Socialist refugees in Switzerland. Last week bullnecked General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Prussia's Nazi Premier, decided to do something about the "Braun Babies." Many of their parents, declared General Goring, must have seen by this time the errors of Marxism and become good Nazis. "Provided the parents' political attitude is not objectionable," he announced, "I am ready to take over...
...days last week for a breath of sultry air to lift their plane and start them across the South Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands...
Sample of Karl and the 20th Century's style, method: "In Switzerland that same evening, at Kiental, where a conference of left-wing socialists was being held, Lenin gave a renewed demonstration of the way in which the imperialist war could be transformed into a class war. In the United States there was being founded the Allied Chemical & Dye Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after...