Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was ordered that mention of exiled King Haakon be stricken from prayers, Norwegian Lutheran ministers developed the practice of pausing while congregations thunderously filled in the deletion. With other insignia banned, loyal Norsemen now wear in their buttonholes bread-ration cards, still stamped with King Haakon's arms...
Nine teams besides Harvard are entering the tournament, in which the Crimson will probably find itself in a better position to vie for top honors than at the Dartmouth Carnival two weeks ago because McGill and the Norwegian Air Force are not represented this time...
University of New Hampshire's skiers: the 31st annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival: outrunning-and-outjumping the Kanonen of seven other North American colleges and the Royal Norwegian Air Force (refugee fliers now training in Canada); with a team score of 564.9 points; at Hanover, N.H. Dartmouth finished second. McGill third. the Norwegians fourth...
...Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State's Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi "new order." Timed with the sinister visit to Norway of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, it militantly recalled broken Nazi promises to respect Norwegian church and civil laws, resoundingly detailed examples of brutal violence by Quisling's "uniformed hooligans," challenged Nazi banning of preachers' vow of secrecy - "the foundation of the church, the Magna Charta of the conscience." The Bishops expected no satisfactory answer from the State's Councilor...
...world's biggest bank. Chase National of N. Y., last week was embarked upon an attempt to solve U. S. bankers' most annoying headache: who controls the U. S. funds of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Latvian and other Russian and Nazi victims? The assets of ten such countries have already been "frozen" here by U. S. decree (estimated total on ice: around $3,000,000,000) and can be transferred only by license from the U. S. Treasury, via the Federal Reserve Bank. But even the Treasury's say-so does not free a U. S. private...