Word: finnishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Finnish Casualties
...resolution passed by the Senate called upon the Securities and Exchange Com mission to expedite consideration of any bonds which the Finnish Government wanted to issue...
...small republic for independence. That the American Youth Congress adjusts its attitude toward aggression to its feelings for the aggressor, is proof of its insincerity; that it favors the Soviet Union in a time in which--rightly or wrongly--the vast majority of the American people sympathizes with the Finnish cause, is proof of its unrepresentativeness...
...Russians had another trick up their sleeves. One night high-flying planes dropped men by parachute behind the Finnish lines. The Russians had tried this on a small scale early in the war, but this time there were scores of men. They were armed with light machine guns, tools for cutting telegraph wires, portable radio sets...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...