Word: finn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under these circumstances the League Council had to weasel, did. Presiding Finn Hjalmar Procopé refused to allow Costa Rica's question to come up for consideration in open Council, but easily obtained the endorsements of his colleagues for a confidential note to Costa Rica which he personally concocted. This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information...
Major Mariano contributed to the Nobile Saga, last week, another and still more bizarre account of how he and Captain Zappi left the Swedish scientist Dr. Finn Malmgren to die upon the Arctic ice (TIME, Aug. 6). Said Mariano: "When the unavoidable separation from Malmgren came and we dug him a trench we told him we would halt 100 yards away and wait there twenty-four hours in case he changed his mind and considered himself able to continue. We did this, and when we saw him, on one occasion, lift his head we shouted, 'Come on, Malmgren...
...Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might be imputed to Captains Filipo Zappi and Alberto Mariano (respectively Pilot and Navigator of the Nobile dirigible Italia), who set off to tramp across the ice to land with the Swedish meteorologist Dr. Finn Malmgren, but were alone when rescued (TIME, July 23). Tass reported that, on the day before the rescue of Zappi and Mariano, a Soviet plane photographed them from the air, and that a third man or his remains was then visible, prostrate on the ice. Tass told that when Captain...
June 15: Dr. Finn Malmgren, walking toward land, dies or is left for dead...
...Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, injured, with Capts Mariano & Zappi, pilot and navigator, quit Nobile camp, start to walk to land...