Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exhibiting no uneasiness about the validity of these generalities, Director Saint-Gaudens went on to describe the annual International Exhibition which will open in Pittsburgh in October. In addition to paintings from Spain, England, France, Italy, Sweden, there will be shown, for the first time since the War, a group of German and Austrian pictures. On the Jury of Awards will sit Anglada y Camarasa, Spanish painter; Ernest Laurent, French impressionist; Algernon Talmage, English landscape...
...League of Nations Secretariat announced the progress of contagious diseases during the past year. Epidemics this spring have been slight. Though measles are on the up, smallpox is less prevalent in the U. S. and Canada than ever before. Diphtheria has Increased in Western and Central Europe ; influenza in Sweden, in Denmark. The incidence of typhus remains unusually low throughout Eastern Europe...
...Paris, Mr. Chauncey Hackett, General Counsel of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment, addressed the Sixth International Congress of Anti-Prohibition Organizations in which France, Austria, Belgium Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Finland, Norwy, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, were represented. Said...
Died. Christian Michelsen, 68, first premier of Norway, who took a large part in securing the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905; at Oslo...
...Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), lost to Sweden, by obstinate and unnecessary warring against the European Powers and Peter the Great of Russia, Baltic provinces stretching from Stettin to Reval, and in so doing reduced his country from the rank of a first-class power...