Word: henrik
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...more important to that battle was an agreement made Math Danish Minister Henrik de Kauffmann allowing the U.S. to build bases in Greenland (see p. 22) whence planes can spot German submarines and surface raiders, to protect U.S. lent or leased war materials bound for Britain. If Minister de Kauffmann had a questionable legal right to sign such a paper, at least the moral justification of it was sound. The President was getting tough; and everyone, even Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, liked...
Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
...Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite (running on the Republican ticket) Henrik Shipstead is defeated (by Democratic Attorney John E. Regan, or by onetime Governor Elmer Austin Benson), the Senate loses one of its handsomest nonentities...
Minnesota. In the Republican fold after twelve years as a Farmer-Labor member of the U. S. Senate, poker-playing old Henrik Shipstead had no trouble walking off with the Republican Senatorial nomination. For GOPoliticos, it was like the good old days before Floyd Olson. They land-slid tough, able young Governor Harold Stassen in on his way to a second term...
...Boyg. Playwright Henrik Ibsen is to the Norse what Playwright William Shakespeare is to the British. In his play Peer Gynt, Ibsen's hero, a rustic, wastrel Hamlet, tussles furiously but unsuccessfully with an unseen presence called the Boyg, which may be construed as Peer Gynt's conscience, his better self. The Boyg is also construed as a dominant power in the Norse soul, an ingrained instinct for decency and conservatism against which immorality or forces for change cannot prevail. On many lips last week as the Falkenhorst talons closed on lower Norway was the question whether...