Word: helsinki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helsinki, though editorial pages roasted the Government, great and jubilant headlines heralded the arrival last week of hard liquor (the kind Finns like) in huge quantities. Cried the Most Reverend Archbishop Ingman: '"Not even the first cargoes of American grain which arrived in starving Finland at Christmas time in 1918 aroused such excitement as these present imports of 'legal liquor' into a country already full of illegal liquor. . . . Touching the assertion that the State will derive some benefit from these liquor sales it is my solemn duty to warn the Finnish people against attempting to employ Beelzebub...
...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 from office...
...Helsinki, the capital, women cast red ballots, surprised everyone by plumping for State Liquor Control. In all, 82% of the capital's vote was for repeal of Prohibition, and of this landslide of ballots more than 55% were...
...were permitted. Previously Finns favoring continuance of Prohibition had postered the city with statements that "those who vote wet will be punished on the day of judgment." On election morn, since the Government had forbidden both Drys and Wets to distribute handbills, the Drys laid upon every doorstep in Helsinki a copy of a Dry newspaper ap-pealing editorially for support of Prohibition. In not a single Helsinki district, however, was a Dry majority polled...
...What makes us sad," commented Rev. Sigfrid Sirenius, one of Helsinki's leading settlement workers, "is to think that revenue from the sale of liquor will soon figure as the basis of the national budget. . . . The local deduction will be that it will be a patriotic duty to drink heavily, so that the State will get more revenue...