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...days must have dragged for King Haakon. Nights were now only twilight and almost every day fresh blankets of spring snow fell to impede the progress of Allied and Norse troops seeking to wrest Narvik from the stubborn clutch of some 3,500 Austrian ski troops under General Eduard ("The Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord...
...their fifth win of the season, the Crimson lacrosse team gave the Boston Lacrosse Club a sound 9 to 3 trimming on the Business School field Saturday, as Pete Zouck frolicked over the stubborn Bostonians to net four goals...
...Quiet. Relative silence now fell over lower Norway, with only a few guerrilla bands of stubborn natives fighting on in mountain pockets. Even the 160 men and 15 officers in thick-walled Hegra Fortress outside Trondheim, though unbeaten, finally surrendered. In 23 days a husky nation of 3,000,000 people, living in mountainous, snow-covered country well suited to defense, and with some 35,000 supposedly modern soldiers sent to help them, had been conquered by an army of perhaps 85,000 skilled, swift-moving, hard-hitting fighters, and some 500 indefatigable warplanes. As a military feat of sheer...
...other Nazi force driving northward up the Oester Valley nearer the Swedish border, appeared to be encountering fierce and stubborn opposition from reinforced British and Norwegian forces...
...stickler for liquid assets, he astounded U. S. Treasury officials by turning in $350,000 in gold when the New Deal forsook the gold standard. Like the elder J. P. Morgan, he had plenty of money to lend to a man with character, none for a man without it, Stubborn, independent, able, he refused to close his firm for the 1933 bank holiday, went out in the street and urged jittery depositors to come in and get their money, finally compromised with Federal officials by locking the front door, leaving a side door open...