Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Battling against this first report, plump German Delegate Dr. Carl Melchior was backed by "The Three Little Neutrals": Switzerland's Dr. Brindschedla, Holland's Mynheer Colijin, Sweden's Herr Rydbeck. They deadlocked the Committee which found itself obliged to draft and lay before the world a second and quite different report with these conclusions...
...Fesche of the Société Céramique last week. "in the history of the Dutch ceramic industry was the situation as catastrophic as now." Other Dutch potters sadly nodded their heads. The fall of the pound has enabled British potmakers to dump their receptacles in Holland...
...wage cut. In Amsterdam Communists and police set to with brickbats and revolvers over a new regulation forcing all unemployed men on the dole to show their cards twice a day to prevent fraud. In the midst of these alarums, rumors started in Britain and Germany that Holland too would go off the gold standard. The Netherlands Bank quickly spiked these with an announcement that Holland still had a gold coverage of 91.9% for gold circulation...
Dirk von Punessen, 24, son of Holland's Baron Henri von Duesseldorf Punessen, titled "King Scout" six years ago when he organized the Boy Scout troops of Europe, attended a Scout meeting in Milwaukee. Attempting to force a bullet into a pistol, he braced the muzzle against his stomach and pushed the cartridge base against a projection on the wall. The cartridge exploded, critically wounding King Scout Punessen...
Fire destroyed "Bay Tree House" and about 150 rare Holland bay trees, valued at $30,000, on the Roslyn, L. I. estate of Clarence Hungerford Mackay, threatened a nearby greenhouse containing one of the most valuable orchid collections in the world...