Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie-Joliot (daughter of Marie Curie) and P. Savitch of Paris, who had done work which helped Hahn identify the all-important barium in his bombardment products...
Died. Prince Valdemar of Denmark, 80, oldest member of the Danish royal house; of bronchial influenza; in Copenhagen. Before the World War five kings called Prince Valdemar uncle - those of England, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Russia. In 1887 he was offered the throne of Bulgaria, in 1913 that of Albania. He refused both...
...concentration camp, had surprised the Propaganda Minister in Lida's rooms, might have killed him had it not been for the intervention of Dr. Goebbels' chauffeur. Frau Goebbels, one of Herr Hitler's more prominent tea-pourers, was supposed to have chuffed off to Copenhagen for the divorce she has long wanted...
...London for a "holiday" was Foreign Editor Nicolas Blaedel of Copenhagen's famed old Berlingske Tidende, who incurred Adolf Hitler's wrath by reprinting a description of German atrocities from a speech by an English M.P. Next day the paper offered humble apologies for printing an "absolutely incredible" story, sent Blaedel on a long vacation...
...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...