Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into their handsome board room on the 26th floor of Manhattan's spike-topped Chrysler Building last week strode 15 grave directors of $661,067,033 Texas Corp. Eleven of them were there to debate the fate of their $100,000-a-year chairman - hardheaded Torkild Rieber, Norwegian-born onetime tanker master. Three, officers of the company, had come to listen. In the witness chair was Oilman Rieber. Out side, in the anteroom, were war and Adolf Hitler...
...when the Allies were still struggling in Norway, he sat in his favorite Manhattan haunt-the venerable National Arts Club on Gramercy Park-debating ways & means of converting pro-Ally sentiment into increased Allied aid. On May 6-when Chamberlain was on his way out over the Norwegian failure-White drafted a brief statement, left it with Eichelberger, returned to Emporia...
Married. Else Marie Hall, 20, daughter of famed Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad; and Accountant Arthur Dusenbury, son of a wealthy ranch owner; in Bozeman, Mont. Else had once thought of becoming a singer, changed her mind because "I am afraid I could never sing as well as Mother...
...alone Witnesses claim 1,000,000 followers, are prepared to proselyte in Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bohemian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek. Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lettish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Yiddish, as well as English. All told they seek souls in 36 nations, in 88 languages...
...Manhattan, balding, moon-faced Exile Carl Joachim Hambro, for 15 years president of the Storting (Norwegian parliament), explained Norway's vulnerability to the Nazi attack: "Perhaps we loved butter better than guns...