Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warehouse looking for it, finally notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cabled Director Loew-Beer. Presently she received a reply. The director, still in smuggling mood, had addressed the throne to a friend in Oakland, Calif., which he innocently assumed was a suburb of New York. Mrs. Roosevelt and Holland America Line officials looked some more, found the imperial seat, not yet forwarded to "suburban" Oakland, in a crate on a dock in Hoboken, N. J. Last week the throne went on view, along with some 40 other objects, in Manhattan's Arden Gallery...
Bismarck to Stinnes. In 1913 Kaiser Wilhelm II received from the Association for International Conciliation congratulations on his reign of peace. Within the next 25 years, Germany had fought the greatest war in history, seen its Kaiser flee to Holland, gone through the most harrowing political, social and economic disorders in modern times and emerged the scar-covered bully-boy of the world. The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler...
...Country;" Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy. "Taxation of Property and Income;" A. Lincoln Gordon, instructor in Government, "Economic Planning in New Zealand;" and Richard Abel Musgrave, instructor in Economics, "A Comparative Study of Systems of Business Taxation in the United States, England, Sweden and Holland...
...last week lectured the Senate on propaganda,suggesting that plenty of it was afoot today as in 1914-17 to draw theU. S. abroad. Said he: '"We cannot escape part in it if war comes to Europe.' Why does this thought persist and grow . . .? Norway, Sweden,Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Spain stayed out of the last war. There were 55,000,000 people living in democracies at the very door of the war in Europe. If they could stay out . . . why must we even lend ourselves to the thought that we cannot stay out? . . ." Gerald...
...German Army, which had already retreated 100 miles, with a loss by capture of 390,000 men and 6,600 guns-the largest in the history of military operations-fled through Belgium, Holland, over the Rhine, swiftly and efficiently, in a manner that Liddell Hart viewed not as a rout but as a skilful military movement...