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...President Hoover appointed two more newspaper publishers to diplomatic posts: Edward Everett Brodie of Oregon (The Oregon City Morning Enterprise), to be Minister to Finland; Ralph Harman Booth of Michigan (Grand Rapids Press and seven others in a chain), to be Minister to Denmark...
...Majesty's speech was broadcast, in addition to the U. S., to: France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia...
...master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook the job of policing this new domain. National defense dictated the purchase from Denmark of the Virgin Islands for 25 million dollars in 1917, to give the U. S. military control over the portals of the Caribbean and hence the Panama Canal...
...first time in British railway history a royal train, carrying King George & Queen Mary and King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, reached London behind schedule, stalled 18 minutes by the force of the storm. On his arrival in Britain last fortnight, long King Christian, whose life is a succession of minor mishaps (TIME, March 18, 1928), was stranded for hours on a mudbank. Last week, like Ajax defying the lightning, he re-embarked for home in the height of the hurricane...
Three Kings and three Queens made a full house in Sandringham, Norfolk, last week when King Haakon & Queen Maud of Norway, King Christian & Queen Alexandrine of Denmark sat down to take pink milk with King George & Queen Mary of Britain...