Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House callers last week: Harry Laity Bowlby (Lord's Day Alliance), Sir John Reith (British Broadcasting Co.), members of the Danish Brotherhood, Fred B. Smith (World Alliance for International Friendship...
Norway has never recognized the claim of Denmark that all Greenland is Danish. Norwegians have quietly thought and quietly said for years that Eastern Greenland north of Scoresby Sound is Norwegian. Last week this Arctic crisis, forgotten for years and quiescent as a cake of ice, suddenly thawed and melted wrathfully, boiled...
Well Worth While! British courts are best. Mrs. Ralph H. Booth of Grosse Pointe, Mich., wife of the U. S. Minister to Denmark, presented at the Danish Court last winter, was presented at Buckingham Palace last week. She exclaimed afterward...
...President Hoover's description of the former Danish West Indies is correct but Americans must blame themselves for the condition there. American laws have absolutely ruined St. Croix where the finest rum in the world was formerly produced. Everything stagnated after the Americans prohibited its manufacture...
Around the Virgin Islands prevail the old Danish tariff law (average rate: 7%,) instead of the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Act (average rate: 39%). Danish currency is likewise legal tender because the islands' bank continues to operate under its original Danish charter. The U. S. Congress appropriated $600,000 to put the black islanders back on the land, 90% of which is owned by a score of rich foreigners. Emigration to the U. S. has cut the islands' population in a decade by 15%, down...