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Espana. British freighters meanwhile were running General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held...
...familiar, choppy steps across the stage and mounted the podium, she faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with the Stockholm Opera in 1922, took...
...Copenhagen a sight in the main square made Dr. Parran pause with admiration, for "along with advertisements of department stores, model houses, parks and other attractions of the city was posted the list of names, places and hours of all venereal disease clinics." In Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other...
...amount of control exercised by the state, but with still enough leeway left to private employers to exercise that imagination and foresight which has been so instrumental in the development of the great modern industrial nations, especially the United States. He pointed to the economic systems of Britain and Scandinavia as "the sound conception of the relation of the state to the entrepreneur...
...This week Premier Blum was able to enjoy a "diplomatic victory" when the Soviet Union and Germany decreed arms embargoes. Always glad to come in on anything of a pacific nature, the For eign Ministers of Norway, Sweden, Den mark and Finland met in conference at Copenhagen, solemnly pledged Scandinavia not to ship arms to either the Whites or the Government of Spain...