Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Statistics. Age: 41 (born April 13, 1907, on a 40-acre truck farm in West St. Paul, Minn.). Ancestry: his father, William Andrew Stassen, was the son of Norwegian and Czech immigrants; his mother, Elsie Emma Mueller, was born in Germany, came to the U.S. with her parents when she was six years old. Harold was the third of four sons. He has one younger sister. His father, now 71, still runs the farm, drives into St. Paul frequently with vegetables. Educated: St. Paul's Humboldt High School (1922); the University of Minnesota...
...teams were recruited from graduate, undergraduate, and ski club members of the two colleges. Indian Brooks Dodge beat it to the flag in 52.2 seconds with Erling Lorentzen, Norwegian exchange student from the Business School, taking a close second for the Crimson...
Vital Statistics. Age: 57 (born March 19, 1891 in a five-room frame house on Los Angeles' dingy Turner Street). Ancestry: his grandfather was Halvar Varran, a Norwegian carpenter, who came to the U.S. with his wife and two sons, settled in Iowa and anglicized his name; his father, Methias H. Warren,-born in Norway, moved from Iowa to California, became a master carbuilder for the Southern Pacific. His mother, Crystal Hernland, was the daughter of Swedish immigrants. Educated: Kern County (Calif.) high school, the University of California (1912), U. of C.'s School of Jurisprudence (1914). Married...
...Sweden, the influential daily Dagens Nyheter came out with a proposal that neutrality-minded Swedes would not have dreamed of a few months ago-Swedish military cooperation with the Western powers. In Madison, Wis., Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne spoke bluntly: "Peace can always be had-by individuals and nations-by giving in on every point until one is stripped of everything except peace-the peace of the grave. . . . We shall of course stand up against any future aggressor, from wherever he might come. We shall fight with everything we have. . . . Once more we shall prefer...
Said Gerhardsen last week: "These events [in Czechoslovakia] have awakened gloom and apprehension among us. ... The threat to Norway and to the freedom and independence of the Norwegian people is the danger which the Communist Party represents at the present moment. The most vital task in the fight for independence, democracy and security under law in Norway is that of reducing the Communist Party and its influence. . . . We will try to convince those who joined them in good faith during the war, in the belief that the Communist Party was national and democratic...