Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount of liquor toped and swizzled in Sweden has been approximately halved during the past 15 years. Arrests for drunkenness have been halved. Crimes of violence have been reduced almost two-thirds. Swedes give the credit to Dr. Ivan Bratt. Yet he has just resigned as President of the Swedish Liquor & Wine Trust: a unique corporation, doing business with the strange object of making as few sales as possible yet always paying to contented shareholders...
Death. A solemn Royal theme was Death. Every official flag in Sweden went to half mast for Prince Friedrich II, 71, abdicated Grand Duke of Baden in Germany, uncle of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and brother of Her Majesty Queen Victoria of Sweden...
...which stirred Swedes, last week, was wild moose. These mighty, antlered game were alarmingly reported to be browsing upon and trampling down thousands of aspen saplings in the province of Smaland. Aspen is a wood much used for making match sticks; and match making is a major industry of Sweden. Therefore the wild moose tales alarmed...
Died. Frederick William Louis Leopold Augustus, 71, onetime (1907-18) Grand Duke of Baden, brother of Queen Victoria of Sweden, uncle of the German Chancellor (Prince Max of Baden) who arranged the terms of the armistice, last of a line of sovereigns nine centuries old; of heart disease; at Badenweiler, Germany...
Engaged. Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden; to Estelle Romaine Manville, Manhattan debutante, descendant of Jeoffrey de Magnavil, ally of William the Conqueror; in Pleasantville...