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...arrive in the U. S. were the Norwegian skiers, who won the championship in 1924 and 1928. Sigmund Rudd, whose 265-ft. jump three years ago is the world's record, was one of the 18 members of the team, as was Johann Grottumsbraaten, clothes dealer of Oslo, a slight, baldheaded man of 32, whom most Norwegians consider the greatest skier in the world. The Swedes brought a woman to cook their food, a crack team for the 50-kilometer ski-race...
...There is a special reason," said Professor Halvdan Koht at the Nobel Institute in Oslo last week, "why peace prizes so often have gone to America. ... It is true that the United States sometimes has pursued an imperialistic policy, a natural consequence of industrial capitalism, but they have also fostered the most vigorous idealism in the world. The American people have an instinctive faith in the perfectibility of man. An ideal is to an American not a distant mirage but a practical reality which it is one's duty to put into life...
King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olaf, members of the Cabinet and Oslo's diplomatic corps politely clapped their white kid gloves. The occasion was the sist annual meeting of the Nobel committee, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931 to two U. S. citizens: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Social Worker Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House. The award this year is $31,369; each will receive half...
...condition to enjoy her prize. Gravely ill in Johns Hopkins Hospital, she said that her prize money would be given to the Women's International League for Peace, of which she, aged 71, is honorary president. Two days after the prizes were awarded in Oslo, she was operated on for an ovarian cyst...
Answered an Oslo official...