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Early in the 19th Century, a fanatical Swede named Eric Janson founded a cult whose simple theology was based on the single tenet that the Bible was the only book that could properly be used in religious services. Even hymnals were considered by Eric Janson to be worldly gauds. Oppressed in Sweden by orthodox authorities, Eric Janson sent a boatload of his followers to pioneer a colony in the U. S. The first shipload of Jansonites went down in mid-Atlantic with all hands. Janson and a second company of his followers succeeded in reaching Illinois in 1846, purchased their...
...Landon train, each with his message of good cheer and GOP success in November. If possible, at each stop Governor Landon tried to say something of folksy local interest. At Lexington, Neb., for instance, he recalled that he was in the hometown of Footballer "Swede" Berquist who used to knock holes in the Kansas line. Promptly Mr. Berquist surged forward out of the station crowd to shake the Landon hand as Lexingtonians whooped with pride, A driving rainstorm beat the Landon special to Omaha by a few minutes. Leaving his private car, the Kansas Governor climbed up on a baggage...
...best. He doubted that there were any "superior" races. To Boas it seemed that if one person was innately superior to another, it was because there was more genetic difference between family lines than between racial types. Anatomists cannot tell the difference between the brains of a Swede and a Negro. They may distinguish the skulls, but it has been shown over & over that neither the size nor shape of the skull, within the range of normality, has anything to do with intelligence. Dr. Boas has no confidence in intelligence tests as measures of race superiority, because such tests cannot...
...Marian ("Swede") Mansfield, 18, Northwestern University sophomore, diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost...
...young Minnesota Swede who had been a diamond-drill operator in the iron mines until the slack season of 1914, Carl Wickman became the Hupmobile salesman in the bare little town of Hibbing. Unable to sell the first Hupp sent him, he began a small livery business. Collections on his first trip amounted to $2.25. Presently he added a partner, another automobile, scheduled trips. By 1918 the company was making some $40,000, had 18 ramshackle busses in northern Minnesota...