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...Died. Gerrit John Diekema, 71, U. S. Minister to the Netherlands (he was born in Holland, Mich.), onetime (1907-11) U. S. Representative from the 5th Michigan District; of pneumonia after an abdominal operation; at The Hague...
...Confirmed the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., to be Governor of Porto Rico, of John Work Garrett to be Ambassador to Italy, of Gerrit John Diekema and George Thomas Summerlin to be Ministers to the Netherlands and to Venezuela, respectively...
...President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan...
...GERRIT VAN COEVERING...
...Parthian rounded the horn, sailed northwestward. Aboard with his wife was Dr. Gerrit P. Judd. a Yankee physician sent out by the American Board of Missions. For 14 years Dr. Judd ministered to the Hawaiians, body and soul, helping with many another missionary to persuade them from idolatry to Christianity. The work of the early missionaries in Hawaii was so well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics...