14.2.2010
Humorous Icelandic Tales 10
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a tireless campaigner for the Democratic Party in
Isafjordur and was quite adept at obtaining votes
for his party in the days when the Democrats had
a great deal of support there, during which time
Isafjordur was called the red town. During a
campaign meeting shortly before the mayoral
elections of 1942 Mr. Haukur Helgason of Oddi,
the candidate for the Socialist Party, said that the
moderates ought to be ashamed of the fact that
some housing owned by the town was not fit for
Gudmundur G. Hagalín seen from some angles.
Photographer: Mbl.
Housing Issues
The writer Mr. Gudmundur Gislason Hagalin was