Word: ericsson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Ericsson...
...mine will not be the only letter you receive in correction of the awkward blunder in TIME of May 10 [EDUCATION], when you state that H. R. H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden comes to America to be present at the unveiling of a monument to Leif Ericsson, the early discoverer of America...
...Minister Bliss straightened out his papers and left Stockholm for Washington. The Yale secretary prepared an announcement, because His Royal Highness, Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden and Duke of Skane, is this month coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
...Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton scoured Northern waters for these missing mariners, found nothing...
...Captain John Ericsson, Swedish inventor of the Monitor, a tablet was unveiled in Franklin Street, on the site of the house in which he lived...