Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply wasting time!" Also restive was Scandinavia, Sweden suspending gold payments last week "until Nov. 1," Norway "indefinitely," Denmark "until further notice." Last to go off gold last week was Egypt. In London nebulous resentment at the gold standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half...
...bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...
...acted as though the Arctic Council were the Norwegian Government, treated its recommendations as at least semiofficial. This was natural. The Arctic Council enjoys Norwegian Government support. Danes were entitled to think that Norway was about to move upon East Greenland in some way. Danes, the ebullient "Frenchmen of Scandinavia," were thus entitled to auger...
Making the Icelandic section of the Harvard College Library one of the best and most complete outside of Scandinavia, a large collection of Icelandic books was presented to the University yesterday by Mrs. Henry Schofield of Peterborough, New Hampshire, in memory of her husband, who was Professor and Chairman of Comparative Literature at Harvard from 1906 until his death in 1920. The presentation was made on his birthday...
...original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard one of the best and most complete collections of Icelandic books outside of Scandinavia...