Word: rkenheim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like President Hoover, Finland's President Relander appointed no hot-blooded youngster to head his Prohibition commission but sapient, 75-year-old Edvard Björkenheim, counselor to the Ministry of Agriculture. Ready at hand for Wickersham Björkenheim were Wet statistics released by the Government last week. During 1930 Finland, with a population of 3,600,000, convicted 11,147 men and 2,390 women of violating the Prohibition law. Police confiscated 1,052,486 litres of illegal spirits...
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