Word: viborg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under a system of proportionate representation, M. Lauri Relander, Governor of Viipuri (Viborg), Agrarian, defeated his nearest rival, M. Ryti, Governor of the State Bank, Progressive, on the third ballot by 172 to 109 votes...
...toleration only when it was expedient. They were holding tight to the cherished institution of the property qualification for suffrage. They were trying merely t curb the institution of slavery, until a man rose up and said "A house divided against itself cannot stand." They were issuing the ridiculous Viborg Manifesto and trying to work though a emasculated Douma. They were saying in March, 1917, "this revolution cannot last fifteen days." They are saying now, "We will concede this, we will grant that: but the institution of private property, or of a sovereign state, or of centralized government, must...