Word: finn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last fortnight? The crowd discussed its favorites and perspired, for the temperature was 77°. The blazing spring sun would do the runners no good...
Federal agents took Finn Yokinen to Ellis Island, although he said he had taken out his first papers. He had just been expelled from the Communist Party, but Ellis Island officials prepared to deport him as "a member of an organization advocating the overthrow of the Government by force and violence...
Under $500 bail, promptly supplied, the Finn went temporarily free while his attorneys (real ones this time) presented an appeal. In the mock-sentence of the Red court it had been provided that Janitor Yokinen may be re-admitted to the Communist Party if he: 1) diligently agitates for admission of Negroes to the Finnish Workers' Educational Club of which he is janitor and in which he committed "white chauvinism" by objecting to the presence of three Negroes; 2) joins the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; 3) leads a demonstration against "Jim-Crow" restaurants in Harlem...
...Finn and Hattie (Paramount). This is a loose improvisation based on some incidents in Donald Ogden Stewart's Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad. It is not as funny as it ought to be partly because it follows the hackneyed formula of a naïve U. S. couple seeing Europe for the first time, partly because of the unnecessary subplot involving Lilyan Tashman as an adventuress who tries to steal $50.000 from Mr. Haddock, and precocious Mitzi Green, who frustrates the conspiracy. It is funny when the insane hilarity of Author Stewart is permitted to come to the surface...
Sibelius' First Symphony by Conductor Robert Kajanus and Symphony Orchestra (Columbia, $7.50)-Great, gaunt music played by the fellow Finn who is Sibelius' chosen interpreter. The Finnish Government is proudly helping to finance the recording of the seven Sibelius symphonies...