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When the World War broke, Venizelos brought up against the Danish stubbornness of Greece's Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg King Constantine I, who favored Germany. He hypocritically maintained "a very benevolent neutrality" toward the Allies. Pro-ally Venizelos was anathematized by an Archbishop of the Greek Church...
Mesta's head is Lorenz Iversen, one of the ablest steel machinery engineers in the U. S. A Danish farm boy turned machinist, he went to sea for two years before migrating to the U. S. After working in a New Jersey shop, he went to Germany for further technical training, returning to a job in Mesta's drafting room...
...strength of his one-man expedition is doubled when he strikes up an acquaintanceship with Perken, a German-Danish adventurer of unsavory reputation who has spent his life among the savages of the interior, and who is planning a search in those parts for a French deserter, wanted by the authorities. Together Perken and Claude find the Royal Way, eventually discover a temple with valuable bas-reliefs, which they hack off, load on their bullock-carts. Then they begin the slow fight through the jungle back to safety and fortune. First their drivers desert. Then they fall into the hands...
After embezzling $15,000 from the melting up of orders, the Court Chamberlain apparently embezzled an additional $10,000 from the estate of His Majesty's brother Prince Carl. According to the Danish Press, socialite Swedes made last minute efforts to save the Court Chamberlain from arrest by presenting him with gifts nearly sufficient to cover his embezzlements. When wind of all this was whiffed by the Socialist Cabinet of Premier Hansson last week, efforts to rehabilitate the Court Chamberlain ceased and he was dismissed by King Gustaf, both from the Royal Court and from the Court...
...power company reported a profit of $2,500,000 for 1934, a slight increase over the year before. At the same time President Samuel Ferguson was elected board chairman, succeeding the late Samuel G. Dunham, the founder's brother. Upped to the presidency was Viggo E. Bird, a Danish-born engineer who has been a vice president for years...