Word: hollande
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Never one to dodge an unpleasant fact is Queen Wilhelmina, whose speeches from the throne have sounded a descending scale of pessimism ever since 1930. While other countries have cut their debts by the simple device of inflating currency. Holland sticks tenaciously to its gold florin. Both in Amsterdam and Rotterdam rifles have cracked this summer as Dutch unemployed rioted against cutting their dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Thus spoke the Queen...
Every Deputy, standing politely to hear the speech, knew that the Government was preparing to balance the 1935 budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...
...Patrician burghers still blush painfully at mention of the shocking events of last year, when the native crew of Holland's biggest battleship, DC Zevcn Provincien, waited until the commander and most of the officers were ashore, mutinied, and seized the ship (TIME...
Beneath the Hudson River, one midnight, Patrolman Raymond L. Pine caught a sleek young pig trotting westward through the Holland Tunnel from Manhattan toward Jersey City...