Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...
Susanne, while still on the presses, won first Danish prize in the 1931 Inter-Scandinavian Novel Contest, might therefore be considered Denmark's Novel-of-the-Year. Author Buchholtz is comparatively unknown in the U. S., but not so is his translator, Swedish Litterateur Edwin Bjorkman...
Essentially the new Exchange Law is designed to give Premier Stauning power to bargain with Great Britain when a Danish delegation goes to London this month "to save Denmark's butter, egg and bacon trade." These and other Danish farm products must be saved from too drastic application of the Ottawa Conference tariff accords or Denmark will find herself cut off from her best customer...
...Legation in Copenhagen last week officials, sympathetic with Denmark's plight, said off the record that the Danish National Bank has for some time been informally discriminating against U.S. exports. Such action probably violates the U. S.-Danish most favored nation treaty, but Washington has made only cautious, informal protests. Reason: a squabble now would merely embitter U. S. Danish relations, would make it harder for President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt to make a success of his policy of tariff bargaining with foreign nations...
This year Denmark's total imports have dropped 20%, but her imports from Britain are up 15%-due probably to her National Bank's covert activities. Danish importers found comfort in one provision of the new import laws last week: although they can be forced to buy where the State pleases, the State cannot cut the total imports of a Danish middle-man in 1933 to less than 45% of his total imports...