Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Georges Laurent, a regular member of the orchestra, will carry the solo parts. Next on the program will be "Daybreak" and Siegfried's "Rhine Journey," excerpts from Wagner's famous opera "Die Gotterdammenung," Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in 11 Major," one of the best known of the Finnish composer's symphonic pieces will conclude the program...
...Government last week held stocks of liquor worth $3,600,000 recently seized from Finnish bootleggers in a "battle" with Prohibition agents which cost 14 lives. This liquor the Government expected to sell through its prospective Liquor Control Stores. Said the Governor of the Bank of Finland, suave Mr. Risto Ryti: "Finland could not afford to leave her liquor untaxed and her liquor trade in the hands of professional criminals...
Darkly Speaker Kyosti Kallio of the Finnish Parliament observed: "No blessing can come from liquor either stored in homes or in distilleries...
...when Finland broke away from Russia and became a Republic, Professor Lucina Hagman was a leading female Dry in the successful fight which set up Finnish Prohibition in 1919. Thirteen years of Prohibition having changed her views, Professor Hagman exclaimed after the polling: "The Finnish home has been saved...
Reports to the effect that Jaakko Mikkola, cross-country mentor, and assistant track coach, is to coach the Finnish Olympic track and field athletes when they arrive in this country in June to compete in the Olympic games at Los Angeles were absolutely denied by the Crimson coach yesterday. Mikkola said that he will do no coaching whatsoever, but will merely arranged the trip to the West for the Finnish group and accompany the athletes to Los Angeles...