Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...royal wedding seems ever quite complete without a bomb, and a bomb there was, last week, for Crown Prince Olaf of Norway and his bride, Sweden's grave and lovely Princess Martha. In placing such royal nuptial dynamite-this time a whole kilogram-the usual thing is to plant it in the storied castle where the Prince and Princess expect to make their home. Therefore, last week experienced Norwegian police searched and searched every nook and cranny in and about Castle Oskarshal, until they found and nullified the nuptial bomb...
...Holiness had just received official congratulations from the diplomats upon the resumption of temporal power by the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 18). These expressions of official courtesy were thus long delayed because of the reluctance of many governments to offer them at all. None were forthcoming from Japan, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway or The Netherlands. And the French Ambassador Caron de Beaumarchais, who offered the congratulations of his government several weeks ago without authority received a wigging last week from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, reputedly an atheist...
...Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other 40% was to be sold to citizens of the countries concerned. It is said, however, that...
King Gustaf of Sweden, according to screeching Riviera news organs, "almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo," last week. Even if he had broken the bank, it would have been no staggering feat, for breaking-the-bank simply means that the banker of one roulette table is obliged to go to the cashier of the house and get some more money. Players winning as little as 5,000 francs ($200) have sometimes broken-the-bank...
...with the problems of more local government. Mr. Percy A. Harrison, Director of Examinations in the Massachusetts Civil Service Department, will speak at that time in Harvard 6 on "Some Aspects of the Public Personnel Service." Finally, Professor Johnny Roosval will give an illustrated lecture on "Gothic Architecture in Sweden" at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Museum...