Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a citizen of Lansing. Mich. (pop. 80,000) despaired of adult education in his city last May when lack of funds shut down the municipally-financed evening school. But such defeatists reckoned without Try. (for Trygve) Narvesen, Norwegian-born secretary of the local...
...economic society in which he lived and of the leisure class which is its characteristic by-product. If it were so, it might explain the vitriol very well, but Mr. Bates has gone no farther than assumption, and against his assumption stand the steep national pride of the Norwegian and the Dane, the Scandinavian acquiescence in a strong domestic leisure class, and an appreciation of luxury that yields to that of no European race...
Afraid that Major Quisling might catch them napping, as Adolf Hitler caught and destroyed the German Marxist parties, Norway's Labor Leaders abruptly changed their program. No longer battling for "the Dictatorship of the Proletariat," their election speakers in recent weeks have posed as champions of "Norwegian democracy under the Crown" of tall, gaunt, King Haakon VII. Returns from the General Election showed that this shift paid. Labor, as the champion of Constitutional monarchy, won nearly 50% more seats, while all other major parties shrank. Though still without a clear majority, Labor will hold 69 seats...
Jubilantly Norwegian tories toasted Major Quisling in scorching aqua vitae. His new Nazi Party had won not a single seat but the scare he had managed to throw into Labor they called, not without reason, a thumping Nazi victory...
...confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene. At 14 he ran away from home, was hobo, circus hand, cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder...