Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer; 10) 30 radio performers seeking publicity. President Hoover dropped work to go out behind the White House offices to be photographed with: 1) U. S. Civil Service Commissioners and staff; 2) newspaper association managers; 3) "Danish-Americans" en route to Denmark; 4) Pauline Lodge, Lakewood, Ohio, high-school girl, winner of the $500 Gorgas Memorial Essay Contest; 5) Bandmaster John Philip Sousa playing his new "Royal Welch Fusiliers" march...
...Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine, who pay the same man to be president of both companies, though they are completely independent." Genial King Christian, leaving all his Danish courtiers behind, will go to Iceland next June and try to act as much like an Icelander as possible, will open the festival celebrating the 1000th anniversary of Iceland's Parliament with a speech he is now valiantly trying to learn?in Icelandic...
...American tommyrot which constitutes 90% of all films shown in Denmark, is essentially calculated for Negro tribes and other half wild peoples. The so-called 'sound-films' which have arisen lately have not made things any better, they are merely snatching the bread out of Danish musicians' mouths.* Yet our authorities have been persuaded to suppress Russian films, which are culturally and artistically miles beyond the American...
Dwight Filley Davis Jr. and Cynthia Davis, son and daughter of the Governor-General of the Philippines, automobile riding in Washington with Peter O. de Treschow, Counselor of the Danish Legation, ran into a carful of Negroes, suffered minor cuts and bruises...