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...Approved a merger with three other Lutheran denominations-the 605,000-member Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1860 by U.S. citizens of Swedish birth or ancestry; the 36,000-member Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod), founded in 1890; the 24,000-member American Evangelical Lutheran Church organized by Danish missionaries in 1872. The move to merge, said United Lutheran President Franklin Clark Fry, was a "historic and momentous decision...
...doings of the atmosphere. The Russians have not told whether they got meteorological information from their Sputniks, but next spring U.S. satellites will carry into space at least two weather instruments. A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Verner E. Suomi, is fashioning metal spheres two inches in diameter that will be carried by a satellite to measure radiation from both the sun and the earth. The U.S. Army Signal Corps is preparing a special photoelectric cell to detect variations of light from the earth, thus measuring the "albedo" (reflectivity) of cloud formations that...
Thus, Helsinki's Uusi Suomi expressed its-and many a Finn's-fed-upness on the war against Russia last week. With the more leftist Suomen Sosialidemo-kraati, organ of the strongest Finnish labor groups, expressing the same sentiments, there was sound indication this week that all Finland was feeling the same...
...though you were my own children ; I am as proud of the men from the northern fields as of the sons of Ostro on Bothnia's plain, the Karelian forests, the Hills of Savo, the fields of Hame and Satakunta, the leafy copses of Uusimaa and Sarsinais-Suomi. I am as proud of the sacrifice tendered by the child of the lonely cottage as of the child of the wealthy...
...lion's den was plutocrat Major General Karl Rudolf Walden, member of the Defense Council, close friend and adviser to Baron Mannerheim. Known as Finland's cellulose king and one of her wealthiest citizens, he is editor-owner of the second largest Finnish daily, Uusi Suomi (New Finland). Third Finn was 71-year-old Väinö Voionmaa, ex-Foreign Minister, ex-Minister of Commerce, professor of history, member of Parliament. Fourth Finn was Juho Paasikivi, who was supposed to have been in Stockholm...