Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some had been borrowed from U.S. museums and private collections. Many had never been seen in the U.S. before. Others, like The Milkmaid (owned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), had been sent originally to the New York World's Fair. One jewellike Domestic Scene by Jan Steen was lent by King George of England, reached the U.S. by bomber. The 70 masterpieces, insured for $5,000,000, represented one of the most valuable art hoards of its size ever assembled in a private gallery...
Professor de Haas was educated in Holland and took his M.A. degree at Harvard and his Ph.D. at Stanford. He has taught international relations at Stanford, the University, of Texas, New York University, and the University of Amsterdam, Holland. Since 1927 he has been a professor at the University...
...Dutch-descended President of the U.S. at Hyde Park. Then, wearing her store-bought clothes from Pittsfield, she motored to the island that Dutchman Peter Minuit bought from the Indians for $24, a city that might have been under her domain but for the casual fall of New Amsterdam 278 years...
...large studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. In Roermond (southern Holland), where he had left behind him a vast, factorylike workshop with 15 busy assistants, blue-eyed Joep (pronounced "Yoop") Nicolas had engineered such towering feats of glasswork as the famed memorial windows for Queen Wilhelmina in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk...
...Born in Amsterdam, Professor de Haas came to this country in 1904, and became a naturalized citizen in 1917. Getting his M.A. from Harvard in 1911, de Haas taught at several universities throughout the country, received a royal appointment as professor to the University of Rotterdam in 1919, and after several other government and professional positions both here and abroad, was named William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships at the Business School...