Word: zuricher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspect," said Herr Bugammen darkly, "that some of the heroin listed as 'exports' is being peddled in Switzerland. We are going to stop that. We have just arrested 22 suspects in Zurich. Some of them, I regret to say, are young girls...
...Iturbi was born in Valencia 34 years ago. In his early 'teens he won honors at the Valencia and Paris Conservatories but today he says that he has learned most by listening. At 24, while playing in a Zurich café, he was asked to go to the Geneva Conservatory as head of the piano faculty, a post once held by the great Franz Liszt. He accepted, stayed in Geneva for four years, then embarked on a concert career with immediate success...
...Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer), Joseph Pulitzer (whose father was blind), Daniel Willard (B. & O. R. R. president)-contributed handsomely. The Wilmer Institute with its professional staff and equipments outclasses any like organization in the U. S. and ranks equal to the great eye clinics at London, Paris, Munich, Zurich, Vienna. Indeed, it surpasses them in having at its coöperation the entire facilities of Johns Hopkins medical organization. Dr. Welch. One of Dr. Wilmer's patients is William Henry Welch, 79, son of a doctor-son of a doctor-son of a doctor. The profession considers that...
Birthday. Chief Justice William Howard Taft; at his summer home in Murray Bay, Quebec. Age: 72. Died. Louis Marshall, 72, of Manhattan, Constitutional lawyer (Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall), philanthropist, "acknowledged leader of American Jewry,"* chairman of the Jewish Council Agency; in Zurich, Switzerland, where he had gone to attend the Zionist Congress; of an infection of the pancreas. His accomplishments: Leader, in 1911, of the movement to abrogate the U. S. Treaty of 1832 with Russia after that country would not honor U. S. passports when carried by Jews, Roman Catholics or Protestant missionaries; leader of the Jewish war relief movement...
...Zurich meeting, Jews skilled in law, shrewd in business, confident of their race, continued planning Palestine's development. They discussed a $15,000,000 Palestine finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...