Word: versoix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City resident Rudolphine Schlinger says she too has proof her husband William had Swiss bank accounts. The wealthy furrier had made deposits before and during the war from his home in Versoix, Switzerland. But he died in 1985 without having retrieved the funds. Then a December 1996 article in the newspaper Jewish Week listed his account at Swiss Bank Corp. At a hearing last week in New York City attended by a representative from the bank, the 89-year-old widow appealed directly for restitution. "To you, sir, I ask, rather I demand, that you tell me what happened...
...financial rewards that contemporary society ungrudgingly offers players of sports, games and music in comparison with the recompense given workers in sustaining occupations like farming, construction, teaching and transportation. In making play incredibly more profitable than work, hasn't society got its values upside down? Oduro Asante Versoix, Switzerland Via E-mail...