Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cameramen: "I should think you'd get tired of taking my photograph." Said a rude photographer: "We do." ¶ Later in the week, in her column My Day, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote: "I ... drove over ... to talk for a few minutes with the Prime Minister of Norway, the Norwegian Minister and his wife. They were lunching with the President. . . ." Mrs. Roosevelt would have had a long wet drive had she indeed gone to see the Prime Minister of Norway, Johan Nygaardsvold, for he was last week attending to his business in Oslo. The gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted...
...lifeboat racing come into its own as an international sport. In that year the old Neptune Association, an organization of deepwater shipmasters and licensed deck officers, began holding international races of one nautical mile in New York Harbor, first of which was won by the crew of the Norwegian Segundo. In 1933, after the race had been increased to two miles. Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil Co. of N. J. donated a silver trophy to be presented to the crew which won three races, and next year led in forming the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Inc. Last week...
...year the opera house was built for the fun of pretentious gold miners, Norwegian Dramatist Henrik Ibsen sat down to write a play about Nora Helmer, a pampered, naive little wife who commits forgery to get money when her husband is sick, gets such a taste of the world that she leaves home to find out what life is really like. This play, A Doll's House, was presented in Central City's old theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival...
...surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with official leadership...
Invented by Scotch shepherds, golf in the U.S. has been inherited by many Italian day laborers' sons, who caddied on the courses their fathers tended. Guldahl is the first ex-caddie of Norwegian descent to develop top-flight golfing talent. Reared in Texas, Guldahl's talents in the past have sometimes seemed misplaced. After his tragic putt in 1933 which, if it had gone into the cup, would have made him a national celebrity, he speedily lost prestige. In 1935 he failed even to make a living out of golf, took to selling automobiles and working...