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Sibelius' Second Symphony by Robert Kajanus and Symphony Orchestra (Columbia, $7.50) - The great Finn's music is fast receiving the recognition it deserves. The present recording, played by Sibelius' friend and compatriot, is said to have been instigated, partly financed, by the Finnish Government...
That same letter was copied into the column of many Finnish newspapers published...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
...extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest and at one time the largest Finnish-American newspaper, a communist triweekly, the Uusi Kotimaa. Though not a Finn, I have spent the past seven years supervising their school of 300 pupils, 92% of which are of Finnish extraction. Let your representative learn the same lessons I did, then you change your comment of this industrious people...
...months ago the name of Vihtori Kosola appeared in Finnish papers when well organized bands of Lapuan peasants under his leadership kidnaped Communist agitators, dumped them over the Russian border. Kosola's prestige grew by leaps & bounds. Last month 12,000 of his followers journeyed to Helsingfors by train, motor, horseback and on foot, formed ranks, marched in military formation to the Parliament building, demanded the immediate passage of laws to suppress Communism, and to make the government more economical by halving the number of representatives in Parliament. Statesmen were impressed by the size of Kosola's army. They introduced...