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...Virgin Islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John), bought from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000, presented a similar economic problem. Their 95% Negro population had been squeezed off the farming land. Their rum trade had been blighted by Prohibition. Their sugar plantations and factories were close to collapse. Last month following a six-month investigation by Chief Herbert Brown of the Bureau of Efficiency, President Hoover transferred the Islands' administration from the Navy to the Interior Department. To set up a new civil government and pull the Virgin Islanders out of their economic hole President Hoover appointed...
...Denmark...
...President Hoover appointed Laurits Selmer Swenson, 65, to be U. S. Minister to the Netherlands. Short, light-haired, blue-eyed Mr. Swenson (born at New Sweden, Minn.) has served as Minister to Denmark and to Norway, is beloved by Scandinavians at home & abroad...
...like Hamlet," said Mr. Mumford, "without the Prince of Denmark...
...Iselin will sail on Friday, April 10 to supervise the finishing operations on the ketch, Atlantis, which is being built in Denmark for the Woods Hole Institute. The 142 foot steel boat was put in the water recently but is yet far from completion. The ship when completed will be powered by a 300 horse-power diesel motor and four sails. Costing $175,000 the ketch will have two laboratories, ten tons of wire rope, and quarters...