Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beckmann, Germany's greatest living artist (before Hitler), was packing to leave Holland, teach at the Chicago Art Institute, when invasion swallowed him in the spring of 1940. Last week, Chicago gave missing Max Beckmann his biggest one-man show in the U.S., at the plush-lined, modern-art-conscious Arts Club...
...they: "Does [Mrs. Rockefeller] take us for such stupids [as the painting portrays] or does she take New Yorkers for such stupids that she hangs this up as a little bit of Germany?" In 1937 Beckmann moved with his round-faced, good-looking and good-cooking wife, "Quappi," to Holland. Says he: "Life is difficult, as perhaps everyone knows by now. It is to escape from these difficulties that I practice the pleasant profession of a painter...
Officers and men of the Netherlands Merchant Marine have their families in Holland--under the power of the Nazis. Nowhere they find a home, a place to rest, if only for a few days. The Netherlanders in all ports of America are doing their utmost to help them. We started furnishing a home for them at this moment in the new sailors' club of Boston. It is the usual story--few funds, and we need much. Are there, perhaps, some students at Harvard who have an easy chair, some pictures they don't need just now and would be willing...
...Perry, leading 100-yard man, never swam in competition before. Dick Holland, Bill Prier, and Dick Everett head the sprinting field with Perry...
...never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters for virtually nothing. They held the planet in a net as instantaneous as light...