Word: finn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helsinki last week loyal Finns crowded into movies to cheer wildly while a picture of the life of their masterful, benevolent President, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was screened in celebration of his 75th birthday. On that same day, little Finland paid into the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan $231,315.50, the last installment on her War debt to U. S. Fin land's unique integrity was lately respon sible for Karl Kojander, a hungry Finn who lives in Brooklyn, being put on Relief. Declared the Judge: "We aren't going to permit a Finn to starve when Finland...
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Donald H. Davidson '39, Staten Island, New York; Hume Dow '33, Staten Island, New York; Edward A. Drew '37, Flushing, New York; Richard B. Finn '39, Niagara Falls, New York; Chadbourne Gilpatrick '37, White Plains, New York; Frederick P. Glike '37, Meriden, Connecticut; Arnold Gottlieb '38, Brooklyn, New York; Stephen S. Gracewski '39, Thompsonville, Connecticut; Edgar L. Haff, Jr. '39, Fort Edward, New York; Warren C. Hall '38, Schenectady, New York; Harold Harris '39, New York City; Peter Hodson '39, New York City; Frederick P. Jenks '37, New York City...
Hero Owens. In 1924 Finn Paavo Nurmi won three Olympic races. Last week at Berlin, Cleveland's coffee-colored Jesse Owens bettered this achievement. On the first day of competition he broke the world's record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with...
Into New York City police headquarters last week walked a twinkly-eyed little man between two Federal agents. At the desk Lieutenant James Finn, oldtime New York detective, glanced up in surprise, remarked: "Hello, Johnny. I haven't seen you in a long time." Into his handkerchief Johnny spat an inaudible reply...