Word: sweden
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German credit accumulations in foreign countries are estimated at $3,000,000,000. It is stated that a billion is deposited in Great Britain, a billion in the U. S. and a third of a billion divided between Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Part of these sums would have been immediately available for financing a Reich-wide Nationalist Revolution. This also the French General Staff had in mind. The failure of the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch called a halt in French military measures, as the reports from a Germany in convulsion were so contradictory that even the French General Staff, with...
Married. Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, 41, to Lady Louise Mountbatten, daughter of the late Marquis of Milford Haven, second cousin of King George of England, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, in the Chapel Royal, London. By his first wife, who was Princess Margaret Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Connaught, and who died in 1920, Prince Gustaf Adolf has four sons and one daughter. Over six feet tall, he possesses an athletic medal, awarded for high proficiency in five different sports. He is a practical archaeologist and a collector...
...straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington, D. C., the Department of Commerce (whose function it is to advertise foreign trade openings for American business men) received a request from Sweden for a monthly delivery of 15,000 to 20,000 bunches of bananas. In Delmar, Del., George Morris, a plumber, was obliged to dig a hole under a house. Crawling in, he felt a stinging sensation on one arm, felt something wrapping itself around his leg. Investigation showed that Morris...
...auspicious hymen of Sweden's royal and athletic archaeologist...
Famous ecclestiastically as Archbishop of Upsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden, the Rt. Rev. Nathan Soderblom is popularly known as the best loved man in Northern Europe. He was born in 1866 in Helsingland and educated at the University of Upsala, of which he has been pro-Chancellor since 1914. He received his A. M. degree there in 1886, and in 1892, by studies and research, he won a degree as Doctor of Sacred Theology. At the University of Paris in 1901 he was the first Swedish student to secure a Ph.D. degree there. Archbishop Soderblom served...