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Under the "present system" no white man can settle in Greenland or even land there without special permission from the Danish Government. Trade is a Govern-ment monopoly, Eskimos are benevolently encouraged not to become too civilized...
...Rector of Copenhagen University, Dr. Lauritz V. Birck, erudite Danish economist, spoke last week as follows...
...Leviathan and commodore of United States Lines' fleet succeeding Commodore Harold A. Cunningham, retiring; Capt. George Fried, master of S. S. America, to be master of S. S. George Washington. Four-days after Captain Randall's elevation, the George Washington was rammed in a fog by the Danish motorship, Malaya, ten miles from Hamburg, whither tugs towed her safely...
...Danish warship a young man darned his own socks, sewed on his own buttons. The two Empresses did not think much of him, though he was their nephew and a prince. But his cousin Tomboy Maud, against her mother's council, fell in love with him, and with her father's encouragement married him July 22, 1896. He was then promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Danish Royal Navy...
...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...