Word: swede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swede Nelson came to Harvard in the fall of 1931 when Casey took up the reins of Crimson football, but when Casey was the Freshman coach, Nelson has assisted him informally. He has worked with the backfield and had complete charge of blocking and tackling. William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics and Head Cocach Casey are now faced with the task of choosing a successor to Nelson and have already begun to confer on the proposition. Their decision will be announced sometime this winter but will probably not come until after the meeting of collegiate coaches during the Christmas...
...Captain Miles Standish and Captain John Smith, not one in thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition in the schools C. Hale Sipe has crusaded...
Since that grim March day in 1932 when a certain Swede lay down on his bed at No. 5 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, Paris and put a bullet through his heart, there has been little but grim news for holders of Kreuger & Toll securities. Last week some of them had a new shock: Manhattan's Marine Midland Trust Co., successor trustee of Kreuger & Toll secured debenture 55, announced that on Sept. 1 it would distribute $25 to each holder of a $1,000 debenture...
...children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served two and one-half years in the U.S. Revolution...
...Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport, L. I. On the day The Flying Family left New York, Green Mountain Boy took off from Barre. It was refueled at Harbor Grace, N. F., roared out over the Atlantic with fuel enough for 37 hours. Two days passed...