Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again last week, as it had every year since 1911, Sweden's Taxeringskalender was proving a boon to the boastful, a murrain to the miserly and a surefire smash in the bookstalls. The book-a privately published almanac which meticulously lists the annual earnings of every Swede, except royalty, who makes more than 15,000 kronor (about $3,000)-sold 14,000 copies during the first few days after publication...
Stuttgart's "Swede" McCormick, who acts as guide to Arkansas Governor Sidney McMath, had a thought for the ducks. Said he: "These ducks live to be five years old at most. We hit them when they're between two and three years old, the governor and I figure, so they don't really miss much of life...
...Scandinavian countries, religious liberty has developed only gradually since Lutheranism became supreme in the 16th Century; until a law was passed in 1860 recognizing dissident churches, any attempt to get a Lutheran to change his confession was a penal offense, and apostasy from the state church made a Swede liable to banishment for life. Since 1860 much progress has been made, but it has been slow...
...Swede would be free to leave the Lutheran Church without joining any other Christian community (he is now required to join another Christian church). ¶All non-Lutheran pastors would be allowed to officiate at weddings (only Lutherans, Methodists, Jews and Roman Catholics may now do so). ¶Permission to establish Catholic convents and monasteries in Sweden, denied since 1595, would once again be granted. ¶Teachers of all Christian denominations would be allowed to teach in all school levels (non-Lutherans are now barred from teaching in elementary schools). ¶Non-Lutherans would have to pay only one-half...
...Glory. The three Davis followers were Anders Clarin, 37, a Swede who had spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they...