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Jens Stoltenberg
Jens Stoltenberg , 1959-, Norwegian political leader, b. Oslo. An economist, he graduated (1987) from the Univ. of Oslo and taught (1989-90) there. A member of the Labor party, he was first elected to parliament in 1993 and served as minister of trade and energy (1993-96) and finance (1996-97). Depu...
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Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen , 1847-85, Danish writer. His historical romance Marie Grubbe (1876, tr. 1917) deals with spiritual degeneration in 17th-century Denmark. Jacobsen's other works include Nels Lyhne (1880, tr. 1919), a semiautobiographical work about a dreamer unable to cope with the realities ...
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Jens Otto Krag
Jens Otto Krag , 1914-78, Danish political leader. A Social Democrat, he entered parliament in 1947 and played a leading role in shaping Denmark's postwar economic policies. He served as minister of commerce, industry, and shipping (1947-50), minister of economy and labor (1953-57), and minister of ...
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan , 1860-1925, American political leader, b. Salem, Ill. Although the nation consistently rejected him for the presidency, it eventually adopted many of the reforms he urged—the graduated federal income tax, popular election of senators, woman suffrage, public knowledge of...
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Jens Johannes Jørgensen
Jens Johannes Jørgensen , 1866-1956, Danish poet and religious writer. He reacted against the naturalism of Georg Brandes and, in such works as Poems (1898), turned to symbolism and emotion. Jørgensen's conversion (1896) to Roman Catholicism is described in his autobiography (7 vol.,...
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John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker , 1780-1857, British Tory politician and author, b. Ireland. He was a member of Parliament from 1807 to 1832 and secretary of the admiralty from 1810 to 1830. The most famous of his regular contributions as a critic to the Quarterly Review was his virulent attack (1818) on Keats...
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Patrick Egan
Patrick Egan , 1841-1919, Irish and American political leader, b. Co. Longford, Ireland. Fervently devoted to the cause of Irish home rule and land reform, he was a member of the Irish Land League from the year of its founding (1879) and was an able lieutenant of Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart P...
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William Hope Harvey
William Hope Harvey 1851-1936, American writer on economics, called Coin Harvey, b. Buffalo, Putnam co., W.Va. He studied at Marshall College, practiced law, and interested himself in monetary problems. He was a vigorous advocate of bimetallism at the time the argument over coinage of silver was ...
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Gilbert Monell Hitchcock
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock 1859-1934, American newspaper publisher and political leader, b. Omaha, Nebr. A lawyer, he founded (1885) the Omaha Evening World, combined it (1889) with the Morning Herald, and was proprietor of the World-Herald until his death. He was a supporter of William Jenning...
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Georges Sorel
Georges Sorel , 1847-1922, French social philosopher. An engineer before he devoted himself to writing, Sorel found in the political and social life of bourgeois democracy the triumph of mediocrity and espoused various forms of socialism, chiefly revolutionary syndicalism . In his best-known work, ...
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