Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human race; at all events her name, Frederika Bremer, forgotten now, was then known in every house. Here and there she visited, met most of the famed people in the U. S., observed the quaint customs of the land, described it all in letters to her sister back in Sweden. Her letters were published soon after and widely read. Now they have been republished...
...Council appointed George W. Wickersham, onetime Attorney General of the U. S. and present member of the Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, to be a member of the international committee for the codification of international law. Other members were appointed from Sweden, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, San Salvador and Argentina. Dr. K. H. L. Hammerskjold, onetime Swedish Premier, was named as Chairman...
...wide distribution of the ten Freshmen who live outside the United States gives the class quite a cosmopolitan atmosphere. They come from Cuba, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain, England and Hawaii...
...went to Denmark for a visit to their relatives of the Danish Royal Family. The Crown Prince was in England. It came to pass, therefore, that the next in line to exercise the kingly functions was Gustav Adolf, 18-year-old son of the Crown Prince, hereditary Prince of Sweden...
...most important of these foreign loans (in millions of dollars) have been: Japan, 150; Germany, 110; Mexico, 50; Netherlands, 40; Switzerland, 30; Sweden, 30; Canadian National Railways, 29; Canadian Railways, 26; Norway, 25; Industrial Bank of Japan, 22; Argentina, 20; Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Railway, 20; Ontario, 17; Consolidated Electric Power Co. of Japan, 15; Nord Railway, 15; Finnish Mortgage Bank, 12; Canadian Pacific, 10; Paris-Orleans Railway...