Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution provides that states may make compacts or agreements with one another provided Congress ratifies them. Best example is the compact setting up the Port of New York Authority which links New York and New Jersey together with four bridges and the Holland Tunnel. As a State Senator, Mr. Toll served in the negotiations for the Colorado River Compact which was to divide water power and water rights from Boulder Dam among seven Western states. He soon learned that states seldom agree, because they have no machinery for negotiation. The Colorado River Com pact was ten years in the making...
...other with wilder surprise than these deserted children of Bunker Hill and Saratoga. In hearing from their own lips of their waning strength, one is reminded of nothing so much as that autumn day in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm threw up the sponge and took the next train for Holland. The rules of our country are-abdicating their thrones with distressingly little thought of what anarchy is to stalk abroad when the firm hand that has been our guide for so long has vanished...
...many a Californian journeyed to the Theosophical Society's estate near Ojai where Krishnamurti lives in a hut. Lately returned from a lecture tour of Mexico and South America, the abdicated Messiah delivered the Society's triennial series of talks, will soon depart for more talks in Holland where the Society owns an estate at Ommen...
Died. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 72, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Presidents Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge; Charles Augustus Lindbergh, King Prajadhipok of Siam, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Booth Tarkington; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. In 1925 grateful friends and patients opened in his honor the $4,000,000 Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, best equipped and most renowned institution of its kind...
...Poor Vincent" Van Gogh, who died an apparent failure in 1890, and whose paintings remained obscure for more than 30 years, is now sweeping away the barriers of New England conservatism with an exhibition of his modernistic work lent by the Kroeller-Mueller Foundation of Holland to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...