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Heading the list were the Committee's honorary chairman, Professor Frans Boas, and Professor Wesley C. Mitchell, both former presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences; Oswald Garrison Villard, former publisher and editor of "The Nation"; Dr. Carleton Washburne, president of the Progressive Education Association; Professor Ralph...
(In Washington last week Speaker Frans van Cauwelaert of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives issued a not-too-convincing rebuttal. Said he: "There was no treason involved. The King gave himself up in order to share the fate of his Army. He was then and is now a prisoner of...
Last week, while the old country grappled with Hitler's Blitzkrieg, Grand Rapids' happier Dutch went to their prim, pillared Art Gallery to see the biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central...
Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his...
As it must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of...