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...Doisy and Vitamin K. Drs. Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy share the 1943 medicine prize ($29,500.07) for discovery and synthesis, respectively, of vitamin K, the "blood-coagulation vitamin." This is the fifth time vitamin research has won a Nobel prize...
Through three daylight summer nights Ribbentrop played on President Risto Ryti's fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating Finance Minister Väinö Tanner, strong man of Finnish politics and long the leader of Finland's fight-to-the-finish school. The battle in the Cabinet was so close that Ryti decided against submitting the proposal to the Finnish Diet. Instead he used his wartime power...
...final vote: 85 yes, 5 no, with 6 absent. (If all had been present, the final vote would have been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
...Swede-baiter and vice president of Helsinki University, Professor Linkomies patched together a coalition Cabinet, with toeless* Sir Karl Henrik Wolther Ramsay as Foreign Minister. Sir Karl's title was given to him by the British, but any personal leanings he may have toward the Allies have not up to now affected his view that Finland had no choice but to stay on Germany's side. Fortnight ago, speaking as Supply Minister in the former Cabinet, Sir Karl re-emphasized one of the facts which explain Finland's continuance in the war: "Germany is the only country...
...explosion wrecked the Göring-operated Fosdalen Iron Mines. A 400-mile strip of central Norway, including Trondheim and Skien, the home of Henrik Ibsen, was promptly placed under martial law. The Nazis rushed 25,000 troops to the coast and other danger points. In a floodlit courtyard in Trondheim, six blackshirted SS men shot 25 hostages picked haphazardly from civic leaders. North of Trondheim the Nazis also turned on their own troops, executed one in every seven of 1,000 men who had mutinied...