Word: svinhufvud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...
...Helsinki last week loyal Finns crowded into movies to cheer wildly while a picture of the life of their masterful, benevolent President, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was screened in celebration of his 75th birthday. On that same day, little Finland paid into the Federal Reserve Bank in Manhattan $231,315.50, the last installment on her War debt to U. S. Fin land's unique integrity was lately respon sible for Karl Kojander, a hungry Finn who lives in Brooklyn, being put on Relief. Declared the Judge: "We aren't going to permit a Finn to starve when Finland...
...Finns last week shared honors when Finland paid: staunch, old President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud (properly translated "Boar's Head" not "Pig's Head") and smart, young Chairman Risto Ryti of the Bank of Finland. Scrupulous, they paid in full-$148,592. No fools, they paid in silver which cost Finland 36? per ounce on the world market last week but was accepted as worth 50? per ounce by the U. S. Treasury under the Thomas amendment to President Roosevelt's Agricultural Relief Act (TIME, May 22). Great powers which did not pay in full (thus placing themselves...
Finland's present President, jovial Pehr Evind Svinhufvud,* stands no bluffing. Ukko Pekka ("Old Man Pehr"), as he is known to his constituents, promptly put into force an emergency safety law permitting the Government to suppress papers, search houses, halt all armed forces. Next he reorganized the Cabinet, putting in loyal General K. L. Oesch as Assistant Minister of the Interior, specially charged with maintaining public safety. Against Lapuan hopes, the Finnish Civil Guard remained loyal. The Lapuan leaders, General Wallenius and Vihtor Kosula, issued a blast about "fighting to the last man," but thought better...
...Svinhufvud, mistranslated "Pig's Head," means "Boar's Head." The name derives from the family crest, an aristocratic blazon which the Svinhufvuds share with the Dukes of Argyll, Harvard's Porcellian Club and Gordon...