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Twain was at the top of his popularity in 1883, when he and Charles Webster became partners. Twain had always had troubles with publishers-"pirates, scoundrels . . . humiliating swindles." Partner Webster at once began to have Twain trouble. First it was what Twain called "Huck Finn-that God-damned book!" He was certain it would not sell (it sold some 300,000 copies the first year...
...F.A.A. President Robert H. Keys, lashing out in all directions, blamed the strike on 1) stubborn plant management, 2) the Government, 3) a hostile National Association of Manufacturers. Pleading the case for his foremen, President Keys said: "All they ask is an avenue for negotiation. . . ." Explained Foreman H. J. Finn, whose son was reported missing in the Pacific last July: "I am fighting for a principle and my son was fighting for a principle, too. Both are important...
...among Finnish politicos and businessmen, Scott found a single-minded determination to fight to the last Finn. "Their attitude towards the Russians is summed up in an old Finnish 'magic song': Just this much they will get from me: what an ax gets from a stone, a stump from slippery ice, or death from an empty room...
...average Finn knew only that the vote meant more bloodshed, more hardship...
Urbane, luxury-loving Alexandra Mihailovna Kollontay (rhymes with O-lone-tie) had known Paasikivi for years, knew the views and fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...