Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europeans have always marveled that the diplomatic and consular representatives of the U. S. are so often of the same strain as the people to whom they are accredited. For example, the U. S. Minister to Norway is Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn., and husband of onetime Miss Ingeborg Odegaard of Norseland, Minn. Last week another instance of this sort of thing strikingly appeared in a report of the U. S. Consul-General at Paris, Mr. Alphonse Gaulin, a one-time Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., where live many French-Canadians...
...plants throughout the Middle West and South, in Canada and Cuba, in France and Germany and Sweden, foremen and factory-managers of the International Harvester Co. (McCormick) beamed with paternal smiles, clapped their boys and girls on the back. Alexander Legge, their stern, potent President, permitted them to announce last week a million-dollar-a-year vacation plan adopted by the company for its 40.000 employes. Two weeks of holiday every year will be given workers in all manufacturing departments, as well as office help. And this vacation will be with pay, an unusual arrangement in the industrial world. Meanwhile...
Spinners of tales said that King Alfonso had left behind him portentous letters fit only for royal eyes. Others had it that Queen Victoria of Sweden had rejected his gift of a ruby necklace as too costly. Last week came truth...
...Sweden, King Alfonso had greatly (perhaps politely) praised a thin, hard, and nearly tasteless rye bread or biscuit, famed in Sweden as knaeckebroed. Shrewdly a Swedish baker approached the admiral of the Principe Alfonso. "Might not His Majesty like a box of knaeckebroed to take home with him?" The Admiral thought he might...
Queen Victoria of Sweden who is generally indisposed and keeps to her hotel on the Riviera, received last week an island in the Swiss Lake Constance from her late brother. Prince Max of Baden, onetime Imperial Chancellor to Wilhelm II of Germany, and first to announce his abdication...