Word: einar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lange went to his home behind the royal castle, relaxed in an easy chair, and drafted the reply in longhand on two foolscap sheets. He submitted it to Premier Einar Gerhardsen (his cellmate during the war in the Nazis' Sachsenhausen concentration camp), and to the foreign affairs committee of the Storting (Parliament...
Last week blunter talk about Communists came out of Scandinavia than any yet heard from a government next door to Russia. The talker was Norway's Einar Gerhardsen, long and lank like the King whose Prime Minister he is. Gerhardsen had left school at 16 to be a road mender. Then he became a trade union organizer. When the Germans landed in Norway and ousted him as mayor of Oslo, he went back to mending roads, clad in overalls. At night, after his road work, he organized the labor union section of the Norwegian underground. Later he spent several...
...Norway, a new Government took office last week. On the strength of its recent election victory and its absolute majority in the new Storting (Parliament), the socialistic Labor Party decided to rule without benefit of coalition. Its leader, rugged, rock-like Einar Gerhardsen, will preside over the youngest Cabinet in Norway's history (average age: 43). Its No. 1 policy: further socialization...
...Norway's national election the left-of-center Labor Party, led by rugged, rocklike Einar Gerhardsen, returned to power with 77 seats in the 150-seat Storting. With a handful of results still to come, Labor was sure of an absolute majority for its intensified prewar program of a planned economy and socialized public utilities. The rightist and center parties lost ground. Communists scored the biggest gain: from nil to ten seats...
Sweden. J. Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...