Word: gustaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had come for a six-weeks' tour, under the patronage of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf. Soon they gave their first Carnegie Hall concert, marching out on the stage with the traditional white caps of Swedish choral societies, preceded by their national flag. The Swedish glee clubs of Manhattan and Brooklyn sang songs of welcome from the rear of the audience...
...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...
Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University...
...Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden: "Crown Princess Louise and I learned while proceeding from Japan to India last week that our villa at Sofiero in the Duchy of Scania was entered recently by burglars who found that we had cannily removed to storage everything of value...
Officiating Socialist. At the dais ordinarily occupied by the Throne stood that arch-Socialist Carl Lindhagan, Mayor of Stockholm, famous because he introduces before the Swedish Parliament every year a bill to abolish the Monarchy. He it was whom astute King Gustaf had chosen to perform the civil marriage of Astrid and Leopold. Hereafter when Mayor Lindhagan rises to present his bill there may well ensue jeers. Last week he testily remarked before the ceremony: "Of course I have no objection to uniting in marriage any two young people who appear to love each other." As the royal pair stood...