Word: nasson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Associated Press, a $43,000 deficit in last year's athletic budget prompted the Nasson move, which followed closely similar section at New Haven...
...soldiers, all with a healthy taste for blondes. Prices had risen 70% in less than a year and a half. Fishermen-fishing is Iceland's chief industry-netted almost as many mines as fish. The State liquor monopoly was being wrecked by bootlegging. Premier Hermann Jónasson's Cabinet had fallen twice in less than a month. The 1,011-year-old Parliament (the Althing) had rejected price-control plans as smacking of State Socialism...
Square-faced Hermann Jónasson, Premier of Iceland, last week decided he could no longer face the problems brought on by foreign occupation of Iceland. His Cabinet had split wide open...
Premier Jónasson's Progressive Party has watched price levels kite to 70% above normal (TIME, Oct. 13), has long wanted a price-fixing law to hold them down. But the other two parties in Iceland's Coalition Cabinet have refused to consent to a measure which they said meant "State Socialism." So Premier Jónasson last week presented his Government's resignation to Regent Sveinn Björnsson, let others try to form a Cabinet that would tackle Iceland's problem...
Premier Hermann Jönasson of Iceland thought Icelandic conditions last week were approaching the outlandish. If 15,000,000 soldiers were dumped in London, said he, it would not be any worse off than Iceland is now. Further, the British-American occupation has upped living costs for Iceland's residents 70%, disrupted the island's foreign trade, upset many an Icelandic lass. (Last week four U.S. Marines got 10 to 20 years in Portsmouth (N.H.) prison for rape committed in Iceland.) Nevertheless Premier Jönasson was still anxious to cooperate...