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Rehearsals went on for weeks under the eye of the Gestapo. In October pro-Nazi dignitaries attended the dress rehearsal. The cast performed brilliantly. Leading Man Jörn Ording delivered his key speech to wild applause: "Democracy has brought us to destruction...
...station has 1,000 watts, will use most U. S. amateur wave lengths (5 m., 10 m., 20 m., 40 m., 80 m., 160 rn.). Two operators will keep it on the air twelve hours a day, handle League messages, broadcast amateur news to radio "hams." There are 49,000 licensed U. S. amateur operators, an enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...
...University of Wisconsin, Prof. Rasmus Björn Anderson, linguist, insurance man, rubber manufacturer, onetime (1885-9) U. S. Minister to Denmark, editor of Amerika (weekly), whose resolute chin is now overgrown with the white hairs of nearly 80 years, refused to accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...Kaiser, who has been languishing at Doörn in Holland since a certain memorable event in 1918, was reported to be "bored with life." To relieve his boredom singers sing German songs to him. Said Herr Bruno Voelcker, chanteur, after a recent visit to Doörn: "The Kaiser looks as stately as ever. His beard and moustache are white...