Word: valdemar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
Fundamental principle of the Wire Recorder is not new. Danish Physicist Valdemar Poulsen first suggested it 40-odd years ago. Last week U.S. commercial radio sound engineers adopted a "show me" attitude toward the Wire Recorder. But if Inventor Camras' machine turned out to have bugs in it, the Army felt certain he could shoo them...
...week to bring it "protection from the Allies." Almost to a man the Danes did as bid, laying aside their arms, getting on with their work as usual-all except the guard at the Royal Palace in Copenhagen, never before invaded by foreign troops. The guards led by Count Valdemar, deemed it their duty to challenge the grey juggernaut as it entered the palace courtyard...
...From Copenhagen to Finland went 62-year-old Colonel Valdemar Tretow Loof, who had just resigned from the Danish Army, to take command of 600 Danes already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting...