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...EINAR T. LINDEN...
...Received from Einar Hoidale, Minnesota Democrat, a contest to the seat now occupied by Republican Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota...
This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...
...Sweden's Capt. Einar-Paal Lundborg, actual rescuer of Nobile, was killed in a crash last month (TIME...
...American Engineering Council; he is a member of the American Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, the Western Society of Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geological Society to which he sent greetings at their last meeting (TIME, Jan. 12); he has received at the White House Einar Paul Lundborg, rescuer of Umberto Nobile, Dr. Hugo Eckener, Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, U. S. to Rome flyer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World...