Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told of the world's great short-wave stations now in Nazi hands: of the powerful Amsterdam radio, well heard in the Netherlands East Indies, which had been pumping out tales of U.S. weakness, Jap might for months before war broke in the Pacific; of Radio Falange in Madrid and Radio Vichy, whose assignment is to revile Yankee culture and Yankee "imperialism" for Latin American ears; of Radio Saīgon, now an instrument of Jap propaganda in Southern Asia...
Surinam was once thought to be worth more than Manhattan. The Dutch traded the colony of New Amsterdam to the British in 1667, got Surinam in return, and thought that they had the best of the bargain...
...ballet, Drums Sound in Hackensack, proved that Choreographer de Mille, like her movie-directing Uncle Cecil B., has a touch, and the touch made it seem that, among the New Amsterdam Dutch of 1650, there was no situation which would not be improved by a saucy twitch of the rump...
Minister van Mook was a scholar raised to the rank of statesman. He came of sturdy stock (a great-grandfather marched to Moscow and back with Napoleon), was the son of two schoolteachers. Born in Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided...
...Caught by the German invasion of The Netherlands, but still working in his Amsterdam studio, was Max Beckmann, an "Aryan" expressionist regarded by many, before Hitler, as Germany's No. 1 painter. In London, Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka was trying to find a boat that would take...