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Accompanying Capitalist Ryti into the Bolshevik's 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...
...wealthiest States in the Union is sound, solid, barn-bursting Ohio. But ever since 1935, when the Federal Government turned relief back to the States, Ohio's relief program has suffered crisis after crisis: one rolls into the next like waves on the beach...
...growing violence, growing paradox, growing economic change and bewilderment: "of [Northern] abolitionists hanged, shot, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured facially by vitriol, their home doorways painted with human offal ... of the 260,000 free Negroes of the South owning property valued at $25,000,000, one of them being the wealthiest landowner in Jefferson County, Va. ... of Southern planters and merchants being $200,000,000 in debt to the North and chiefly to the money controllers of New York City...
...convert Homer Martin, the youthful ex-preacher, who as National A. A. U. hop-skip-jump champion (in 1924 and 1925) was known as "The Leaping Parson from Leeds" (Kansas). This explained to observers Mr. Martin's nonchalance of the week before, when his wealthiest, strongest U. A. W.A. F. of L. local (Packard) moved 10,000 members and its treasury over...
Favorite pastimes of the Maharajas of Indore, wealthiest state in the Central India Agency, are shikar (hunting) and zenana (harem). In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes. Last week Indore's incumbent ruler. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur* indicated that his interest in zenana was over. He was married...