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...world. God seemed to be on the side of the tariff. Heavy gales kept hundreds of lumbering freighters at sea. When 5 o'clock sounded from Big Ben at least 50 ships of the "Dumping Armada" were still steaming up the Thames. Last under the wire was a Finnish sea captain who rushed into the Customs House perspiring and in carpet slippers, unaware that his owners had already reported his ship docked. The losing ships had to pay 10% duty on their cargoes next day, but the loss went to British insurance firms. Canny owners had paid big premiums...
...released from jail after he had been cashiered from the army and sentenced to three years imprisonment for kidnapping Finland's George Washington, Professor Kaarlo Juho Stahlberg, her first President. General Wallenius was in the news again last week. At the head of 5,000 Lapuan Finnish Fascists he marched on Helsinki, the capital. Government troops met the advance 25 miles from the city where a skirmish occurred and the Lapuan march prudently halted. General Wallenius contented himself with hurling an ultimatum at the Finnish Government threatening civil war unless all Marxist & Socialist members of the Government were removed...
Last week the Finnish Diet gave the Finnish people what they had asked for in last month's prohibition referendum. On the assumption the voters wanted plenty of cheap liquor, the Diet established the following prices...
...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...
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...