Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first striped flag that Tower found bore seven red "stripes of rebellion" (see opposite) for the provinces of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, Friesland, Groningen and Overijssel, strongholds of the Reformation. According to Tower, Dutch refugees carried this flag with them to the southern counties of England, where Puritanism was strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada...
...early 17th century, Puritans from Holland and England crossed to America, and when the first colonial confederation was formed for mutual safety in 1643 among Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven and Connecticut, Tower believes, a flag of four red stripes was adopted and flown from coastal trading vessels as shown in a 1647 view of New Amsterdam (opposite). From these Puritan beginnings, the red-and-white-striped flag gradually took on a national symbolism. It appeared in New York during the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, with nine red and white stripes-for New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New Jersey...
...Holland will stage performances in The Hague-Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and 13 cities and other towns (June 15-July 15). Besides the first-rate Concertgebouw and Hague Residentie orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic. Milan's La Scala opera and the New York City Ballet will perform...
Michigan's gregarious Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams went Dutch to help the townfolk of Holland (pop. 15,858) celebrate their 26th annual Tulip Festival. Clogging among admirers on his wooden shoes, Soapy Williams obligingly got down on hands and knees, worked himself into a lather scrubbing the town's main street, later danced through an arch of arms with pretty Dawn Poppen. who will reach voting age in five years...
When the Senate finally voted, the count was 50-44 against the Johnson plan. The Republicans, with the exception of North Dakota's Maverick Bill Langer, voted in a solid bloc. Three other Southern Democrats (Louisiana's Ellender, Florida's Holland. Virginia's Robertson) joined Byrd and George in voting against. Only two of the Senate's 96 members failed to vote: Massachusetts' Democrat John Kennedy, who is ill, and Maine's Republican Margaret Chase Smith, who was abroad doing legwork for an Edward R. Murrow television show...