Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presidents of the only two republics with Prohibition are Herbert Clark Hoover and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. Not to be literally translated, "Pighead"' is the name -aristocratic in Finland-of President Svinhufvud, meaning "Boar's Head" (the device on the Svinhufvud family crest). No pighead, no bigot, the President takes an occasional glass of wine. Told last summer that President Hoover "never drinks," twinkling-eyed old President Svinhufvud chuckled: "It is the same in Finland. I don't drink either...
Early last week Finland's Minister of Interior. Freiherr Ernst von Born, told Finland's Diet that the State was threatened by a coup d'état from increasingly violent anti-Prohibition groups. "Prohibition and the economic crisis." said Freiherr von Born, "have greatly irritated the nation, making it susceptible to direct action propaganda. . . . Extremists are openly challenging the Government, thereby inciting large sections of the populace to lawlessness. . . . Secret bodies have been planning to form 'direct action cells' in both the Army and the Civic Guards. The Government is determined, however, that the constitutional...
...Continuance of Finland's present Prohibition law, which since June i, 1919 has banned beverages of more than 2% alcoholic content...
...Yale Club will open the program with four numbers: "Fight," a student song of Finland, by R. Faltin; "By Moonlight," by von Othegraven, a tenor solo; "Waters Ripple and Flow," a Czecho-Slovakian folk song arranged by Deems Taylor, sung by J. VanB. Griggs; "Danse Macabre" by Saint Saens. The Harvard singers will follow with three selections: "Give a Rouse" by Bantock; "Der Gang Zum Liebchen" by Brahms; "Fire, Fire My Heart" by Morley. The first part of the program will then be concluded by the joint rendition of several choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Mikado...
...Paavo Nurmi: a two-mile race at Helsingfors, Finland; in 8 min., 59 3/5 sec., a world's record (Nurmi's twelfth...