Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sinister but fascinating mental healer, Osgood Perkins has never had better lines to wrap his tongue about. He begins with the observation that "Maine is a masculine Riviera." He progresses to Bismarck's solution of the Irish question, to wit: send the Irish to Holland, the Dutch to Ireland. The Dutch would soon make Ireland a garden. The Irish would soon forget to mend the dikes. Finally he reaches the heart of his cynically expedient philosophy by recalling that he started out as an eye-ear-nose-&-throat man, but soon shifted to psychiatry because "the poor have tonsils...
...pitch and constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers : for work as an engineer, teacher, author and consultant on the ventilating systems of the Holland Tunnel, the U. S. Capitol, the proposed Chicago subway. Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president and research director of General Motors Corp. ; the Washington Award for engineering (bronze plaque on marble base) : for "contributions to the increase of personal mobility" and eloquent advocacy of the cause of research. Roger Adams...
...American journey" across the U. S., an attack on optimistic illusions. Title: satiric. STONEWALL JACKSON- G. F. R. Henderson, C. B. - Longmans, Green ($5). Reprint of the famed standard biography long used as a text in the British War College and at West Point. MAN AND THE SEA. - J. Holland Rose- Houghton Mifflin ($3). Story of the great sea-explorers, famed and obscure, profusely illustrated with old maps and cuts, by a British naval historian...
...States, Canada leads with 47 students, followed by China, 27; England, 21; Hawaii, 19; France, 11; Puerto Rico, 8; Germany, 8; Mexico, 7; Belgium, 4; and Turkey, 4. Other countries, Colombia, Estonia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Alaska, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sweden, South Africa, Roumania, and Syria...
...food, low pay and brutal officers were undermining the Fleet's morale, though the Admiralty was woodenly unaware. England was at war with France, Holland and Spain; it was no time to talk about grievances or reforms. When the Admiralty received identical petitions from eleven ships' crews of the Channel Fleet, it did not even acknowledge them. By the time the authorities woke to the fact that trouble was brewing, it was too late. They ordered the Fleet to sea; it stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships...