Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said, 'Howdy.' " At 21, summer-vacationing in Switzerland, he reported on a party: "I walked up to the best-looking dame in the bunch & said 'howdy?' Things at once went like oil & I was soon having flirtations with three of the nobility at the same time ... I inspected the gardens with another 'chawmer' & ended up by jollying the hostess herself all by her lonesome for ten minutes while a uniformed Lord stood by & never got in anything except an occasional...
...Zumikon, Switzerland, Leopold, exiled King of the Belgians, briefly rose from obscurity by giving his royal all to the rigors of the Swiss Golf Tournament, then settled down again with a beaker of something refreshing...
Died. Princess Elsa of Liechtenstein, 72, widow of the late Franz I, onetime ruler of the postage-stamp principality nestled between Austria and Switzerland; of a heart attack; at Lake Vitznau, Switzerland. Granddaughter of a wealthy Viennese banker, Elsa de Guttmann secretly married Franz in 1921 (she was Jewish; he a Roman Catholic). When the 76-year-old Prince succeeded to the throne in 1929, the couple went through a public ceremony. After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting...
...first exiled in France, then Switzerland, where his wife died, later Portugal, and finally Manhattan...
Thirteen of the 16 nations (all except Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) announced that they would discuss a European customs union. Top U.S. officials were even more interested in a program that would inspire Western Europe to work for itself than in the amount of help the U.S. would be asked to deliver...