Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delegate James M. Cox praised the Conference's 500 experts, remarking that "100 of them have been working together at various conferences for ten years." In his final speech Mr. Cox, unable to praise his Monetary Commission, praised the Bank for Interna tional Settlements at Basle, Switzerland as a world force for sound banking which, he said, had helped the Conference. "We can easily foresee," he cried without explaining what he meant, "an entirely new order created by the Bank of International Settlements. ... Of course it can have no arbitrary powers. ... Its services are simply available if desired...
...sold the house in New Jersey, went to Italy. Four years passed before she made her début, as Aïda in the Puccini theatre in Milan. Later she sang in L'Africaine, for three years thereafter appeared regularly in leading opera houses in France, Italy, Switzerland. Last month she returned to the U. S. after seven years, showed Manhattan operagoers an Aïda really Ethiopian...
...year ago the super-paternalistic, super-mechanized Bat'a works were put to a supreme test to which last week Zlin paid triumphant tribute. Thomas Bat'a had been up half the night at Zlin working over a big shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. The day dawned murky, with fog blotting out tall Bat'a chimneys. Twice the pilot of the Bat'a private plane, an ace pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed...
...drinks quantities of milk. Aged 19, he has escaped most formal schooling and examinations but passed the Czechoslovakian Government's test for the certificate of "master cobbler." After a trip to the Bat'a shoe outposts in Africa and apprenticeship in Bat'a facto ries in Switzerland and Germany Tommy is working through the plant at Zlin, department by department. Now & then he makes a night of it with Bat'a workers at their club, an ancient castle left by Thomas Bat'a with the stipulation that "on these premises alcohol in any form shall...
...eight largest narcotic manufacturing nations have agreed to limit production to match the requisitions filed in Geneva. The six: U. S., Great Britain, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, France. The others: The Netherlands and Japan...