Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quakes struck Holland's province of Limburg, shook inhabitants...
Acting Supervising Architect Wetmore is not and never was an architect. Born 71 years ago in Bath, N. Y., he became a court reporter in nearby Hornell. In 1883 he was a cattle buyer in Holland and Scotland. Two years later he was a stenographer in the Treasury at Washington, gradually becoming a more & more important cog in that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because...
Last week was no time for a statesman in his position to make a speech in which the biggest word was IF, a speech calmly toying with the question of what Holland ought to do IF the dollar, pound, yen and other flexible moneys should one fine day be stabilized...
...that event, observed Dr. Oud at Amsterdam, Her Majesty's Government would certainly have to consider at what value Holland's guilder should be dovetailed into the world monetary stabilization pact. He implied that once the Dutch are sure that other countries have really stabilized they should bring their guilder in at about the average level of devaluation...
Ideas as complex as Dr. Oud's easily get mixed. Hardly had he uttered his careful IF, than Wall Street was reading that "HOLLAND MAY DEVALUE FLORIN, Dutch Finance Minister Sounds Warning...