Word: swede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wyoming, he took a $50 bet in the Chicago Athletic Club from his friend George Jenney that he was not scared to go into politics, was elected Alderman from the Second Ward. On April 6, 1915 he was elected Mayor of Chicago, with the aid of notorious Fred ("Terrible Swede") Lundin, on a Wet-Dry, White-Black, German-British platform. "Freedom for Ireland" got him his re-election in 1919. His third election (1927) he won on a promise to "punch King George's snoot...
...Swede on Palestine. In Stockholm Judge Loefgren, chairman of the League of Nations Wailing Wall Commission, accused Jews of forgetting Britain's promises to the non-Jewish population of Palestine. "It may be," he declared, "that two promises equally valid are simultaneously impossible of fulfillment." (i.e. Britain may have promised both Jews and Arabs more than she can give them both at once...
...Many a Swede mourned last week the passing of Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe. To honor properly the total extinction of a great name three Swedish dignitaries in funeral frock coats and toppers climbed into a teetering rowboat and rowed out to the middle of a lake...
...Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever bear those arms again. Last to leave the crypt was Archbishop Söderblom. He locked for the last time the ancient iron doors on the last of the Brahes...
...ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times in quick succession, counted out. Camera hurried to a cabaret, cut a large steak in four slices and swallowed...