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When asked about the view prevalent in Iceland on the discovery of America by Leif Ericson about the year 1000. Professor Nordal said that there was no doubt about the fact that Leif Ericson did reach the North American Continent, and that the general concensus of opinion in Iceland seems to be that he got as far South as Massachusetts in the course of his wanderings...
Dawes Data: The Ambassador & Mrs. Dawes had a son Rufus Fearing (deceased) ; they have a daughter Mrs. Carolyn Ericson, an adopted younger son Dana (he eloped from Williams College last month, was in Hawaii last week with his bride, who eloped from Mt. Holyoke College), an adopted younger daughter Virginia whom they call "Ginnie." Carefully reared, she does not smoke. Her presentation at Court was arranged as a "surprise," Mrs. Dawes keeping the secret for weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year...
...primary occurs Aug. 12. Seeking the Republican nomination as State Auditor are C. A. Marsh and George W. Marsh, while Frank Marsh wants renomination as Secretary of State. Also out for the State auditorship on the same ballot are L. B. Johnson, Fred H. Johnson, Fred Johnson. Fred E. Ericson and Charles E. Ericson are Republican candi- dates for State Treasurer. John Curtis seeks to succeed John E. Curtiss as chair-man of the Railway Commission. In Omaha Robert Smith, to be renominated as clerk of the district court, must defeat Robert L. Smith...
...stood for just five months less than 1,000 years pondered the Directors' plea. It was in June 930 that the Parliament, or Althing, was founded. In June 1930 two complete steamerloads of Icelandic-Americans will sail from Manhattan for Reykjavik, bearing a $50,000 goodwill statue of Leif Ericson, gift of the baby Congress at Washington, still in its teething* stage...
...Particularly infantile was debate in Washington over the statue last September. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota's first district introduced the appropriation bill with this ringing preamble: ."Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland Leif Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who in the year 1,000 A.D. discovered the American mainland...