Word: finlandized
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...last week, a U. S. Citizen who had neither danced, knitted, orated, played bridge, bingo, banqueted or just shelled out for Finland was simply nowhere socially. The U. S. mood had changed: Isolationism had been thrown away with last year's calendar. On its March engagement pad, the U. S. had marked, "Save Finland...
...their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
...York City, Transcontinental & Western Air's genial Eastern manager, Stick Randall, went to an auction sale (proceeds to Finland), bought: a Dorothy Lamour sarong (used), $25; Paulette Goddard nightgown (used), $30; three of Jimmy Cagney's neckties (brand-new), $22.* Other Finland fans bought Greta Garbo's evening gloves, Josef Lhevinne's autographed concert handkerchief...
...Miss Isabella Comeron gave the Finnish Legation in Washington a $2,000 diamond bracelet. Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé issued an immediate appeal for bicycles. New York's fiery, hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told 1,200 lunchers thatcivilization was on the side of Finland and Finland was on the side...
...Major General John O'Ryan, onetime New York police commissioner, started a drive for "Fighting-Funds for Finland"; his goal: $10,000,000. In less than three weeks General O'Ryan totted up $300,000, sent it along...