Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through locked doors and a heavy screen of Finnish secrecy, it seemed last week that Finland, too, had scratched a U. S. citizen and found a spy. But Arvid Werner Jacobson. 27, onetime teacher in the Northville (Mich.) high school, had adopted a different technique from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...
...whose largest stockholder is the U. S. Government, Treasurer Cummings should indeed have unusual ability in raising money. Second card of the new shuffle was another ace. Mr. Farley named Emil Edward Hurja to assist him as head of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Hurja, a 40-year-old Finnish-American, was a mining analyst in Manhattan when Frank Walker. who last November resigned as treasurer of the committee, introduced him to Mr. Farley. He became attached to the Democratic National Headquarters in 1932, won Mr. Farley's confidence...
...MAID SILJA-F. E. Sillanpãã- Macmillan ($2). Story of a Finnish girl's rise and decline, with a background of the War against...
Seeking Divorce. From Paavo Nurmi, 36, famed Finnish runner: Sylvi Laaksonen Nurmi, his wife since May 1932. In Turku, Finland, Nurmi's birthplace, Mrs. Nurmi told reporters that he broke promises to give up the track, neglected his family to keep in training, complained that his year-old son's feet were too small for him to become a great runner...
Emil Hurja was born of Finnish parents some 40 years ago in upper Michigan. He went to Alaska, got a job sweeping out the office of the Fairbanks Daily Times, later earned enough to put himself through the University of Washington. He first turned up in Washington, D.C. as secretary to Frank Sulzer, onetime delegate from Alaska. Last year he was an early rider on the Roosevelt bandwagon, got himself chosen to the Chicago convention as an Alaskan delegate. Manager Farley, impressed with his ability to forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under...