Word: greenlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the Parliament of Norway, Hambro ranks as the first officer of the Kingdom under the King, and was one of the principal members of the Commission which drafted the treaty setting the long-standing dispute with Denmark over Greenland. In 1926 he became head of his country's delegation to the League and in 1930 he was elected to the League's executive committee. Previous to his entrance into Parliament, Hambro was a professor, editor, and author...
Member of the Norwegian Parliament since 1919 and President of this body since 1926, Hambro ranks as first officer of the Kingdom under the King. In 1923 he was a member of the committee which negotiated a treaty with Denmark over Greenland; three years later he became the head of the Norwegian Delegation to the League. Five years ago he was elected to the League's Executive Committee. Before entering into Norwegian politics, Hambro served, as professor, editor, and author...
...Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John...
Stirred by this furor, the Museum administration had Whitey moved down, from the sixth floor into the main foyer and the majestic company of "Ahnighito," 36½-ton meteorite from Greenland, the regal statue of the Museum's longtime (1881-1908) President Morris Ketchum Jesup, the big scale drawing of Baluchi-therium (TIME, April 8). Although in her informal surroundings upstairs Whitey had postured freely for the Press, she now retired as if in stage fright to one end of her glass cage, sat motionless and goggling behind a fern, presented to squadrons of school children only a vague...
...triumphal progress around Greenland's coasts Minister Owen stood as godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried...