Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo. Bidders for the 1940 Olympic Games were Italy, Japan, Great Britain and Finland. Last week, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 1940 Games to Japan. Stocks on the Tokyo Exchange immediately zoomed. The municipality announced that it would start work promptly on a $3,000,000 plant, including a 120,000-seat stadium...
...make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine, Turkish, Brazilian and Chinese Ambassadors and the Ministers of Cuba, Finland, Iraq, Nepal, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Uruguay, and Paraguay's charge d'affaires. Also the Deans of Westminster and St. Paul's, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth...
...tiny, forgotten participant in the Italo-Ethiopian War was the British freighter Santa Maria whose job it was to carry from Finland to French Somaliland two tons of TNT, 200 incendiary bombs, three airplanes and four machine guns for Emperor Haile Selassie's armies. The Santa Maria had got as far as Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier...
France's suave Joseph Paul-Boncour sat at one end of a long table, Britain's Anthony Eden at the other. Their lunch eon guests were the delegates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France...
Lars V. Ahlhors, visiting lecturer on Mathematics from Finland, has been appointed assistant professor of Mathematics for two years...