Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Final score: Germany, 286; Sweden, 266; France, 130; Finland, 117; England, 93; Denmark, 57; Belgium, 42; Norway, 42; Poland, 36; America, 6; Rumania...
...solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...
...February, rumors began to have substance : Plans were afoot for a secret parley in Sweden. One-eyed General Jan Syrovy, the "strong man" who became Premier of Czecho-Slovakia during last September's Crisis and who seemed to disappear when Bohemia-Moravia became a protectorate, was rumored carrying mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed...
...Some towns (Juneau, Sitka) are cooler in summer, warmer in winter than St. Louis, Chicago, New York City. Sweden and Finland are in the same latitude as Alaska...
...Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers were bigwigs from Poland, Sweden and no fewer than seven from Britain, headed by Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had come to address a U. S. audience for the first time. Columbia's Anglophile Nicholas Murray Butler beamed on his visitors, bestowed honorary degrees on four of the Britons...