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...world's great composers and respect him all the more for his quiet independent ways. Few great musicians have refused to advertise themselves, to bask in the hot spotlight of the world's leading music capitals. But Sibelius, who was born of Finnish farming stock, nursed on Finnish folksongs, has remained resolutely Finnish to this day. In his course of study he spent a year in Berlin, two years in Vienna. The impressions soon faded. At 27 he was back in Helsingfors teaching violin and theory at the local conservatory. Five years later the Finnish Government subsidized...
...Finnish High Court last week passed sentence upon the spy ring of 28 men and women it had been trying behind locked doors for nine weeks (TIME, April 9). To a 27-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan and onetime school teacher in a Detroit suburb, Arvid Werner Jacobsen, the judges gave a sentence of five years at hard labor. In Michigan his wife Sally said: "Arvid took a university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster...
...Mamaroneck, N. Y., at a conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
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...