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Matchmakers. A sad-faced Swede named Johan Edvard Lundstrom had erected a match factory at his native Jonkoping ir. 1845. Starting with a small shop, he and Brother Carl Frans swiftly widened their market. In 1850 Brother Carl Frans visited England, talked business with Matchmakers Bryant & May. Thus began Sweden's export of matches...
...called Bratt System of liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn't she eaten? Is bitch eating worse than cannibalism? Russia. Moscow and Leningrad saw redder than usual, last week, as the great Communist newspapers Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News'") flayed "these Fascist swine!" An editorial in Pravda-whose editor is Nikolai Bukharin, closest associate of Dictator Josef Stalin...
...films I am taking we shall sell," said Cinema Swede Soederstroem, "and Fraulein Stinnes is writing a book...
...revelry a vigilant Justice brooded; for Sergeant Mack and his men, though drinking and disorderly were on duty bent. They were present only because it was their function to find out who had shot Tom McGuire, a well known mining boss, depositing his corpse in the alley back of Swede Cora's place...