Word: finlandization
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While the rest of Europe buzzed with rumors of war, Finland last week was concerned with beauty. Issue: a woman's right to compete in a beauty contest. Believing she had set a bad example, the Government-operated Teachers Training College at Heinola expelled curly, blonde, blue-eyed Student Sirkka Salonen, who was preparing to be a teacher of elementary school children and recently was chosen Miss Europe of 1938 by a jury in Copenhagen. Indignantly appealing to the Minister of Education to rebuke the college for its puritanism by reinstating Miss Salonen, Finland's press pointed...
...George Nichols' three-month-old Goose, U. S. six-metre defender: the Scandinavian Gold Cup series. No. 1 international sailing event in years when there is no challenge for the more famed America's Cup; defeating boats representing Norway, Sweden, Finland and Great Britain; on Long Island Sound, off Oyster...
...Finland, Sweden have more), U. S. scientists and entrepreneurs have been slow to explore and exploit them...
...Frank N. D. Buchman, founder and leader of the Oxford Group, left here tonight on tour of the Oslo Pact States (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland and Belgium) for a series of conferences with national leaders...
...time, an opera extolling peace by any other contemporary composer would probably have been quickly verboten by zealous Nazi censors. But Herr Doktor Richard Strauss is not only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...