Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Finland had won its war with Russia last winter, its hero would have been Red-hating Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. As a loser its hero was stocky President Kyösti Kallio, who was so modest that he shunned interviews, who clicked his heels and bowed low before reporters, who wore a knife in his belt as most Finns do, and who, the war over, turned resolutely to the task of rebuilding his country...
Behind him was 36 years' experience for just such a job. When, peasant-born, sketchily schooled, he won his first Diet seat in 1904, Finland was still a grand duchy under the Tsar of Russia. As Finland won its independence, began to prosper, so did Kallio, becoming fifteen-time Speaker of the Diet, four-time Premier, and, finally, President...
...talents or virtues; it was due to the simple fact that the war in China, having reached a stalemate militarily, had become primarily an economic war. If the Nanking Government can pay for itself and for the Japanese Army of Occupation as well, Japan will have won her biggest victory. Last week Chou Fu-hai made that responsibility exclusively...
...much larger Axis drive into the Near East conducted in the usual Hitler manner: politics backed by power. The thrust into Egypt, even if not successful in capturing Suez, was at least to occupy Britain's full strength in the Near East while other Axis victories were won northeast of Suez. Now both shows had not only flopped but threatened to cost the Axis dear in power and prestige. Reports began flowing about Germans rushing to the rescue, and the Nazi official newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, announced: "The British are in error if they think that the Germans...
...Evansville, Ind., a blind man holding a gun with a friend looking over his shoulder, won a turkey shoot...