Word: christianias
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...Ibsen has "put Norway on the map," for ignorant millions would otherwise scarcely differentiate it from Denmark or Sweden. Perhaps the most familiar tradition of Ibsen is that of an old man who would sit for hours at a bay window of the Grand Cafe in Oslo (then Christiania) staring with unseeing eyes at the bodies of his countrymen but piercing their souls with uncanny insight. His reward is that the theatre-goers of today, who constitute for him "posterity," have already witnessed a greater number of showings of each of his major plays than the sum total of productions...
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. has loaned money to other governments? Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Germany, Czechoslovakia; to foreign municipalities ?Paris, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Lyons, Marseille, Tokyo, Prague, Christiania, and the Department of the Seine (France). This international banking, since the War. had become of high importance to the U. S. More money is available here for investment than can be absorbed by domestic corporations and municipalities; and to place money abroad, investors must rely upon the expertness and knowledge of reliable international banking houses. Knowing this, the Governors of the New York Stock Exchange are seeking to list foreign...
...Andrew J. Volstead, a little man of Scandinavian descent who was born in Minnesota in 1861. His father was a Norwegian immigrant who built the log cabin on the farm where Andrew was born. His mother was the daughter of a market gardener, who lived just outside Oslo, then Christiania. One way and another young Andrew completed his education at St. Olaf's College and prepared for the bar. After a time he settled down to practice in Granite Falls, Minn. The year he arrived they made him attorney of Yellow Medicine County. He had Germans, Scandinavians, Canadians and "Americans...
...Oslo (formerly Christiania), Norwegian capital, Premier Johan Ludwig Mowinckel declared, during a day of national rejoicing, that "the incorporation of Svalbard makes Aug. 14 a red-letter day in our history. What happens today is an extension of Norwegian territory, and all Norwegians must rejoice that such an important territory in the Arctic Ocean becomes a part of Norway...
Since 1888, when the International Council of Women was founded in Washington by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, quinquennials have been held at Rome, London, Berlin, Toronto, Christiania. At the latter capital, in 1920, the sessions were held in the Norwegian Parliament buildings and delegates were received by King Haakon and Queen Maud...