Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria 158,000 6,526,661 Belgium 64,000 7,923,077 Canada 20,000 9,796,800 Czechoslovakia .... 37,000 14,523,186 Denmark 25,000 3,434,555 Finland 4,000 3,582,406 France 1,000 40,745,874 Germany 3,184,000* 62,348,782 Great Britain 2,100,000 44,173,704 Hungary 20,000 8,368,273 Italy 400,000 40,796,000 Netherlands 25,000 7,625,938 Norway 20,000 2,649,775 Poland 240,000 30,212,962 Palestine 5,000 852,268 Rumania 23,000 17,393,149 Russia...
Since 1921 he has devoted his entire time to travel, study and lecturing on the Central European Nations. He has traveled widely in Germany, Finland, Estbonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Italy, Austria, as well as France and England...
...Lumber Hells." From Leningrad to Helsinki (Finland) hastened angrily Editor-Publisher George M. Cornwall of The Timberman of Portland, Ore. He had entered Russia last week to check up on Soviet lumber production, confirm or refute rumors of Russian convicts worked to death in Soviet "Lumber Hells" (TIME, Sept. 22). Said...
...most important place in Finland last week was not Helsingfors (Helsinki), the capital; not the seaports of Vasa (Vaasa) or Viborg (Viipuri), but the farming village of Lapua. The Finns who speak Finnish and the Finns who speak Swedish all spoke of Lapua last week, as did all of Finland's 624 newspapers and magazines. Acute observers saw emerging from Lapua a minor Mussolini, possible Dictator of the country, by the name of Vihtori Kosola...
...Finland, a country some 30,000 sq. mi. larger than Italy, stretches north from Leningrad to the Arctic Ocean, a sort of buffer between Soviet Russia and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is chiefly known to the U. S. as one of the only three governments in the world* which maintain absolute Prohibition of liquor, and as the country whence come great endurance runners (Paavo Nurmi, Willie Ritola et al.) and house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid. Correspondents have described it as a country riddled with lakes, bootleggers and Bolshevik propagandists. Official Finland, puny before...