Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Geneva hoped and believed that Washington will back up the League, Assemblymen looked askance at Chatter Gibson. Unruffled, he strode to a group of seats just outside the Assembly's pale on which sat assorted U. S. and Russian diplomats, the latter headed by Soviet Minister to Finland Boris Stein. No Foreign Minister of a Great Power was present except France's debonair Mâitre Paul-Boncour. Few Assemblymen even wore frock coats. This was to be a little fellows' day, although Britain, France, Germany and Italy stood ready to back up at last...
Into effect last week went the "International Convention for the" Safety of Life at Sea," a uniform series of marine safety laws agreed to by Britain, France. Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Finland, Holland, and Denmark. It was drawn up in London in 1929 after investigations into the sinking of S. S. Vestris with a loss of 112 lives in 1928. No party to the convention is the U. S. Both the International Seamen's Union and the American Federation of Labor backed the fight against it in Congress, claiming that U. S. shipping inspection laws are already...
Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week...
Other Dec. 15 payments: Czechoslovakia, $1,500,000; Finland, $186,235; Italy, $1,245,437; Latvia, $111,852; Lithuania...
...following nations will be represented in the Assembly: Abyssinia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Czecho-Siovakia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, India, Irish Free State, Japan, Russia, Siam, Switzerland...