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Governor Earle of Pennsylvania hired Robert Livingston Johnson, advertising vice president of TIME Inc., to be State Relief Administrator for 1935. His year up, Mr. Johnson, on Governor Earle's recommendation, was last week appointed by President Roosevelt to investigate relief administrations in England, France, Scandinavia at his own expense...
...officer and interpreter in the Allied forces, in which capacities he was sent by France on missions to the United States and Scandinavia. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...
Three lucky as well as able Kings are the monarchs of Scandinavia. Their realms, among the world's most advanced democracies, loomed last week as leaders in the march out of Depression...
Elsewhere. The Scandinavian countries, their currencies hitched to Britain's sterling, had a somewhat better year than last. Many a tourist circled the Continent by way of Scandinavia, Russia and Italy. Egypt, where Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo is an international landmark, benefited by Mediterranean cruises. Only country actually short of hotels is Greece. C. Liabratoulos told the sad-faced conference last week that his government would give a 20,000,000 drachma bonus (about $440,000) to the first promoter who would build a chain of modern hotels throughout that ancient land...
Coming across from Scandinavia at 13 years of age, he went to work on his uncle's farm in Minnesota. He accumulated the equivalent of a high school education by himself, and then went ahead to master the English language in a short time. So thoroughly did he master it that he became editor of the college daily while at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1892. His four years at Minnesota were financed entirely by his own savings...