Word: danish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terms in the House. In 1933 President Roosevelt made her the first woman to represent the U. S. at a foreign capital. Speculation centered last week on the social difficulties of the bride's prospective position in Copenhagen as U. S. Minister and wife of a Danish subject. Unless it proposed to separate husband & wife at court dinners, the Danish Foreign Office would apparently have to choose between insulting the U. S. by seating its representative as Kammerjunkerinde, or insulting the envoys of other nations by seating the Kammerjunker above them. Minister Owen soon solved this diplomatic stickler...
...Whim, Not only the new Lifeline of Empire preoccupied Sir Samuel Hoare last week. Adolf Hitler was off on his white yacht The Whim to secret German Navy maneuvers in the North Sea, "and in Danish waters!" screamed indignant Danish editors. It was by this sort of thing that Der Kaiser in the fateful days before 1914 made his uncle King Edward VII and eventually all Britain so nervous...
Kirsopp Lake to prepare for several publications including "Lectionaria Graeca" being edited in conjunction with Professor Hoeg of the Danish Academy; Alan M. G. Little to continue study of the theatrical influences in Hellenistic art; Ralph B. Perry for a study of puritanism and democracy...
...TIME-READER IN ENGLAND, WOULD SUGGEST SETTING OF YOUR ARTICLE ON OXFORD GROUP SOMEWHAT IRRELEVANT. WHEN ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY SAYS OXFORD GROUP IS DOING WHAT CHURCH OF CHRIST EXISTS EVERYWHERE TO DO, WHEN PRIMATE DANISH STATE CHURCH, THOUSANDS OF CHURCHMEN OF PRINCIPAL DENOMINATIONS ARE IN OXFORD GROUP, SUCH WORDS AS ''CULT" AND "NEW RELIGION" SEEM INVALID. TIME DOES NOT WANT TO HOLD UP IN THE U. S. THE SPIRITUAL RECOVERY OTHER NATIONS ARE FINDING THROUGH THIS MOVEMENT-A REBIRTH OF CHRISTIANITY FOR THE ORDINARY...
Blue-eyed, genial William Johnson is the first native Chicagoan to become superintendent since the post was created in 1854. Son of a Danish grocer, he swept high-school classrooms, did odd jobs, saved enough money to go to Beloit College where, as an assistant in the chemistry laboratory, he "mixed the drinks for the boys to analyze." Switching to Northwestern, he studied education, had a rapid succession of jobs that landed him in Chicago as an elementary-school principal. When he asked for a high-school principalship last year, the Board of Education made him assistant superintendent...