Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...foundation was established with a considerable endowment in 1911 for the purpose of cultivating closer relations, largely through educational and intellectual intercourse, between the Scandinavian countries and the United States. It has already accomplished much in producing a better mutual understanding between our own country and Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It is well that Harvard is taking an active part in this work which will bring us into closer contact with the countries of northern Europe...
...women and children by the cutting off of her food supply: although knowing that such a measure is a well-recognized mode of warfare which she has herself employed in the past and is eager to employ in the present. As to the interference with importations into Holland and Denmark, it is a well-known fact that we were ourselves the first country to establish the doctrine of 'ultimate destination,' by preventing importations into the Mexican port of Matamoros because they were sent from there across the Rio Grande into Texas. Similarly, England, aware, for example, that more lard...
Johann Sigurjonsson owes his fame as one of the younger generation of Icelandic dramatists largely to this stern tragedy of the North, which has been received so favorably in England, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Sweden. The success of the play abroad and the strong recommendation of the Scandinavian-American Foundation has prompted the Workshop to take advantage of this opportunity to develop the more sombre and serious technique of the drama...
...Workshop will be the first to produce on this continent this play, which was considered such a masterpiece when seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. The American-Scandinavian Foundation was very anxious to have it staged in this country, and for this and several other reasons, Professor Baker has chosen it for this production Sigur...
...Comparative Literature, has been elected president of the American Scandinavian Foundation, formed five years ago by Niels Poulson, a wealthy Dane of New York, with a large endowment to encourage closer intellectual relationship between America and Scandinavia. It has the patronage of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and has advisory committees of influential men in each of these countries. Professor Schofield has long been prominent in international relations, having served as exchange professor at Berlin, the Sorbonne and the University of Copenhagen...