Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the State Department's Latin American Affairs chief, Henry Holland, called in Argentina a year ago, he diplomatically saluted President Juan Perón as "a great Argentine"-a judgment very much out of fashion among the revolutionaries who now control the country. But when Holland returned to Argentina last week, he found President Pedro Aramburu and his government quite content to forget it and get on with friendship as usual. Holland twice chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead...
Club officers last night announced that seven countries are included on a tentative itinerary. Tht tour will begin on June 17 with a concert at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. From there, the Club will go to Belgium, five cities in France, seven in Italy, two in Austria, eight in Germany, and a final week in England. The six-week tour will end July...
...Although imports have jumped 20% to 4,746,000 gals, this year, most foreign beer is so high-priced (up to 100% more than domestic brands) that its appeal is mainly in big-city luxury markets, is still less than 1% of total consumption. Biggest exporters: Canada, Germany and Holland...
From the 1931-1935 period to 1951, the U.S. cut tariffs by 75%, collected only 5.1% of the total value of imports; only eight nations (Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Argentina, Sweden, Norway, Holland) had lower percentages. Great Britain's trade-to-imports percentage is now 25.6%, Mexico's 20.6%. France's 10.6%, Italy's 8.4%. Canada, which gets more than 70% of its imports from the U.S., collects 10.2% on all U.S. imports, v. 2.7% collected by the U.S. on Canadian goods. Furthermore, according to a study by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
...years after the publication of Philosophy 4, an equally vacuous but somewhat differently angled novel appeared about the Harvard undergraduate. This was The Count at Harvard by Rupert Sargent Holland, whose name seems justly to have escaped posterity. Perhaps the best comments on the value of this book are found scrawled inside the cover of the edition now in Lamont. Various undergraduates from the class of 1912 up to the present have inscribed their critical sentiments there: "Only on person ever read beyond the first chapter of this book. That was myself. Don't do it." And from a member...