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...people of the Sugar Bowl and the oil and sulfur wells, there was little meaning in an article about the influence of Danish Philosopher Spren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Barth on the novels of neurotic Czech Author Franz Kafka. What could the busy people of the Delta make of this stanza by Andrew Chiappe...
...Thus the Danish immigrant who started out as a shipyard worker at $1.75 a day, rose to the $350,000-a-year presidency of the nation's biggest manufacturing corporation, handed over command of the U.S. war effort to a locomotive engineer's son from Hannibal, Mo., who had wanted to be a professor of chemistry, but who became, as the $70,000-a-year manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the country's No. 1 mass-buyer...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...
...easy last week to get a French colonial tourist visa on your Danish, Dutch or even German passport. The best of Vichy contacts would not get one for U.S. citizens or British subjects...
...Court Chamberlain, he made his youthful diplomatic debut in Berlin, first became Foreign Minister in 1909 when he was only 32. Since then he has been Ambassador to Italy, Austria and Sweden, a leader of the pro-German Radical Party. Last July he organized the Danish Free Corps to fight Russia...