Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Principe Alfonso steamed slowly in, King Gustaf V of Sweden watched from a balcony of his immense, square palace, commanding the lagoon. Came the slow thunder of a royal salute and its return. Then the King of All the Swedes and many a Lapp* descended to greet a tanned and sprightly Monarch, who soon landed from the Principe Alfonso. Naturally the royal visitor was His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...
Fifteen nations signed the treaty at Paris. Immediately after 24 nations adhered. Last week the following 10 nations announced their intention of signing: Abyssinia, Albania, China, Egypt, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey...
...Times' story which followed was written by Professor William Herbert Hobbs, leader of the University of Michigan Greenland Expedition. It told how Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, pilots of the monoplane Greater Rockford (which had set out on Aug. 16 on a flight from Rockford, Ill., to Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able...
...Sweden: "In no other place in the world that I know of do people eat anything like as much-and digest it so well...
Some people still think that to have halved the liquor consumption of Sweden, while at the same time making bootleggery unprofitable, is not enough. That view is not shared by His Majesty Gustav V, 70-year-old tennis-playing King of Sweden, who, from the first, has encouraged, befriended and warmly praised Ivan Bratt...