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...From Stockholm, near where she occupies an island home (not the home of the late Ivar Kreuger, which it was rumored she had bought), and whither she went after demanding an increase of her $6,500 per week salary, came news that Greta Garbo had a cold. Also came news pictures snapped of her unawares in a Stock holm cinema theatre. They showed her dressed in the shapeless tweed suit which she had worn on her voyage from the U. S., long hair streaming stringily...
Last week Finance Minister Felix T. Hamrin and two other members of the Ekman cabinet wanted to see old King Gustaf V in a hurry. The King was due in Stockholm from Solliden Castle the next day, but they could not wait that long. They commandeered three naval hydro planes, arrived at the castle as the King was preparing to leave. The train waited while King & Ministers talked behind closed doors. Finally the King emerged, followed by his ministers, and all entrained for Stockholm. There King Gustaf an nounced he had "accepted" Premier Ek man's resignation, that Finance...
...Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite the fact that in 1929 he gave Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin $135,000 to purchase two Buddhist temples, one to be rebuilt in Stockholm, the other in Chicago for next year's World's Fair...
...four biggest groups in the U. S., held a great Sangerfest in St. Paul, Minn. The homeland cousins could hear it this time, for in St. Paul's Brick Auditorium were 25 microphones to pick up the night's singing and playing, send it to London, Stockholm, Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna. There were choruses of children, men and women, singing in groups as big as 6,000, in German, Swedish, Norwegian and English. From throughout the Northwest, 90 singing bands participated. Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse...
While Lee, Higginson & Co. planned these changes last week the investigation of Herr Kreuger's affairs went on apace. In Stockholm police were searching 150 sacks of waste paper for clues regarding Kreuger transactions. The first actual jail sentence in the case came when Bror Bregberg, one of Kreuger's associates, was fined $162,000 and sent to jail for nine months at hard labor. In Manhattan Anders Jordahl, crony of Ivar Kreuger, admitted that Herr Kreuger might have "been short a few shares" at the time of his death. Other than this he had little...