Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chile's delegation at the League of Nations. An editor was in jail, placards were up on the street corners warning crowds not to congregate, machine gun squads patroled the streets, an angry city attended the funeral of eleven citizens shot dead (43 were wounded) in the worst riot Switzerland has seen in nearly a generation...
...withal, Switzerland has a very deep respect for the rights of property and hence many a continental who is afraid of keeping his money at home, keeps it in Switzerland. This and the fact that Switzerland's well trained secret service gives short shrift to Communists or professional agitators enrages the country's left-wing Socialists...
...demonstration at the funeral of the victims of the ''Massacre of Plainpalais." At the week's end it seemed unlikely that the public would ever know who was responsible for the order to fire. A military investigation was ordered, soft pedaled. Said Giuseppe Motto, President of Switzerland and native of the country's one Italian canton...
...Irving Langmuir at 51 remains inquisitive. His current scientific fun is to study the formation of ice on Lake George, N. Y. where he has a camp. Somehow wintertime always fascinated him. He learned to ski and sail-skate in Switzerland, has skiied throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks, climbed Mounts Washington and Marcy on skiis...
...Claude Dornier stood in front of his airplane factory on the shore of Lake Constance, Switzerland one day last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...