Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oslo last week King Haakon and Queen Maud had among their Jubilee guests his elder brother, King Christian X of Denmark; and Prince George, youngest son of her brother King-Emperor George V. Beginning with a simple, solemn Lutheran service in Our Saviour's Church, the Jubilee became joyous as Their Majesties left the church amid a rousing 21-gun salute, clattered off to the Palace where King Haakon addressed his people and all Scandinavia by radio...
Queen Maud spends much of her time in her native land (Crown Prince Olav of Norway was born in England, went to Oxford). But emphatically the Norwegian people do not consider their Royal Family "strangers." Money for the Jubilee celebration was unhesitatingly voted by the municipality of Oslo, Socialist though...
...Their Majesties reverse the usual royal tactics of courting popularity and employing journalists to puff them, if King Haakon with excessive modesty is still self-conscious in Norway after reigning securely for a quarter-century, if Queen Maud goes about her shopping in Oslo completely unattended and sometimes unrecognized, this strange royal conduct seems to be exactly what Norwegians like. A quaint, possibly significant scrapbook is kept by Their Majesties. She pastes into the section headed We Never Did or Said This newsclippings of that sort. The rest of the scrapbook, much the larger section, bears mute but gracious royal...
...Reports stating that the dumping of Russian produce on Scandinavian markets is creating havoe are greatly magnified," stated Halvdan Koht, Professor of History at the University of Oslo, in a recent discussion...
Though he formally retired from politics last Spring, though he was ostentatiously in Oslo, Norway, when his henchmen upset the last Austrian Cabinet beak-nosed Monsignor Ignaz Seipel received the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the Great Powers again last week in the same place and manner as he used to do when Chancellor?namely: at the Ballhausplatz, famed Austrian Foreign Office...