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...Denmark & Iceland* was assigned Ruth Bryan Owen, eldest daughter of the late Great Commoner Bryan, with the distinction of being the first woman in U. S. diplomatic history to attain ministerial rank. Joyfully asked the Copenhagen Press: "Who could understand us better than Denmark's girl friend?"-a reference to the fact that in 1931 Mrs. Owen & family toured that country with a Curtis Aerocar (a two-wheeled trailer containing a kitchenet and four bunks). Madam Minister Owen, who lost her Florida seat in the House March 4. promptly revealed that she had found some Danish ancestors who arrived...
...fleet of little dragon-prowed ships with red sails moved slowly westward from Iceland. Somewhere in the grey Atlantic their Norwegian outlaw leader Eric the Red expected to find a new land. North Atlantic gales blew up. Many a little ship foundered, its red-bearded vikings drowned stolidly in their iron helmets and shirts of mail. But Eric sailed on until he came on a mountainous waste of land. Four years later he sailed there again with 14 shiploads of colonists, survivors of 25 ships that had tacked away from Iceland. Not because his new land was briefly luxuriant...
King Frederick VI of Norway & Denmark, having sided with Napoleon, was forced to cede Norway to Sweden. At the peace table it was read, "King Frederick cedes the kingdom of Norway with all its dependencies. ..." A smart Dane put in quickly, "excepting Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland." An Irishman named Edmund Bourke added, "These colonies have never belonged to Norway." In 1814 Norwegians, rankling at Sweden, scarcely noticed the lie or the loss of Greenland. They continued to hunt and seal on its gloomy eastern coast. The Danes claimed only the west coast. Greenland was still anybody's dead...
...Murray, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University; Eric Maclagan, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Heathcote Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University; Arthur M. Hind, Assistant Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London; Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik...
...critic, will deliver his second lecture of the Year as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. He will speak on "Poetry and Criticism in the Time of Elizabeth." Professor Eliot is the sixth holder of the chair, which was held last year by Sigurthur Nordal, from the University of Iceland...