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...napping, as Adolf Hitler caught and destroyed the German Marxist parties, Norway's Labor Leaders abruptly changed their program. No longer battling for "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," their election speakers in recent weeks have posed as champions of "Norwegian democracy under the Crown" of tall, gaunt, King Haakon VII. Returns from the General Election showed that this shift paid. Labor, as the champion of Constitutional monarchy, won nearly 50% more seats, while all other major parties shrank. Though still without a clear majority, Labor will hold 69 seats in the new Storting of 150 when it meets next...
Birthdays. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn (75), Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt (71), Jacob Ruppert (65), Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder (62), Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard (61), Haakon VII of Norway (60), Herbert Clark Hoover (58), Ethel Barrymore (53), the Duchess of York...
Tender-hearted Christian X is the eldest son of Denmark's late King Frederick VIII, whose second son was elected King of Norway in 1905. Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started...
...King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olaf, members of the Cabinet and Oslo's diplomatic corps politely clapped their white kid gloves. The occasion was the sist annual meeting of the Nobel committee, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931 to two U. S. citizens: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Social Worker Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House. The award this year is $31,369; each will receive half...
Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...