Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meulen, Financial Committee of the League of Nations (Holland...
...Berlin, called on Old Paul von Hindenburg, on Chancellor Brüning, on Foreign Minister Curtius, was solemnly taken to see the Greek sculpture in the Pergamon Museum and lunched on venison and Moselle in a public restaurant on the Wannsee (Tub Lake). Then he departed by Hook of Holland for London, passing en route Ramsay MacDonald and "Uncle Arthur" Henderson on their way to go through much the same performance...
...that he first gained popularity. It was with Germany in defeat that he entered the hearts of his countrymen. The Kaiser fled to Holland, Ludendorff fled to Sweden. Old Paul stayed on with his troops, ready to take what was coming to him. There came another retirement for Old Paul until 1925, when Junker and Royalist factions decided that the way to restore the monarchy was to elect Old Paul, most faithful of the Kaiser's servants, President of the Reich to succeed President Ebert. They did, but they forgot the old man's sense of duty. When...
...discovery and description are the eggs of the tule goose, a large relative of the white-fronted goose, which winters in California; eggs of the greater snow goose, which nests in northern Greenland (fledglings have been found); breeding grounds of the Ross goose (it has nested in captivity in Holland); nest & eggs of the bristle-thighed curlew which breeds somewhere in Alaska's interior...
...trade names of automobile builders (e.g: Buick, Olds) Designer Fokker took with him the right to his name on aircraft. With it he will organize International Fokker Corp., combining Fokker interests the world over, with the Dutch Fokker Aircraft Co. as nucleus. These interests include aircraft factories in Holland and Belgium, licensing arrangements in Great Britain, France and Italy; also the K. L. M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) airline between Holland and Batavia, which uses Fokker planes exclusively. Designer Fokker professed friendliest relations with General Aviation Corp., in which he remained largest individual stockholder and a director...