Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, Führer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting Hungary's Regent, Horthy...
...earliest and greatest of nationalist composers was the late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway, whose best biography to date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world...
Organizer Lapham acknowledged a debt to Great Britain and Sweden. He recollected that Franklin Roosevelt's commission on British labor practice found effective associations of British employers dealing with unions on a regional basis, observed: "It is evident that the employers learned a good deal as they went along." Having enrolled established associations of wholesalers, hotel operators, building owners and managers, automobile dealers, general contractors, waterfront employers and draymen, Mr. Lapham's council announced its intention of becoming "the recognized spokesman in a broad sense for all employers, whether group or individual...
...Swedesboro, N. J., for its tercentenary last August, Prince Bertil of Sweden told his guard of 72 New Jersey traffic policemen that he would like to make every mother's son of them a sergeant in the Swedish Navy. Last week each of the 72 received from the Swedish Embassy a gold pin emblazoned with the royal coat of arms, and several telephoned the local consulate to make sure of their new rank. The consul replied that Bertil, though grateful, had a sense of humor: even the Swedish Navy has no sergeants...
...last surviving child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...