Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
...Today is 'Ruth Bryan Owen Day' in Copenhagen as the Danish metropolis awaits the return of the most popular diplomat ever sent here. . . . A grand reception has been arranged. . . . The newspapers publish columns about...
When Ruth Bryan Owen, gracious U. S. Minister to Denmark, expressed a desire to come home by way of Greenland, the Danish Government insisted that she travel as its guest. The Danish Premier saw her off at the boat and the Danish administrator for Greenland escorted her to his territory. Mrs. Owen suggested that perhaps a U. S. Coast Guard boat on ice patrol could take her from Greenland to the U. S. The State Department, knowing full well that the ice patrol ended in August, presented her request to the Treasury. No man to refuse his country...
...Dane" was "the greatest of the Allied War-time spies." A marine engineer, traveling in Germany for the Danish shipbuilding industry, the Dane decided to sell his information to the British Se cret Service. Possessed of a phenomenal memory, he carried in his head the me chanical details of new German submarines and Zeppelins. When he first reported on guns big enough to bombard Paris from a distance of 75 miles, nobody would believe him. He made a fortune out of his spying, retired after the War to his native village where he is now a wealthy, highly-respected citizen...
...Henry and Charles. Ahead lay a long itinerary: a stop at Cap Haitien, so that President Roosevelt could pay a return call on President Vincent of Haiti; another stop at Puerto Rico; and then the three little Virgin Islands which 17 years ago gave up their maiden name, the Danish West Indies, when they were married...