Word: hollander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes supplied by the U.S. Navy from the Canal Zone. Sent on the sole authority of the U.S., such police planes would have been unthinkable Yankee intervention, but the O.A.S. as an international body was able with heightened prestige to accept the offer of Assistant Secretary of State Henry Holland, U.S. Latin American affairs chief. Flying over rebel territory, the investigation commission learned enough to dispose firmly of Somoza's claim that his country had nothing to do with the invasion. They reported that "a substantial part of the [rebel] war matériel was introduced over [Costa Rica...
Florida's Democratic Senator George A. Smathers, a counselor for the U.S. delegation, added to the consternation by declaring himself in "full accord" with Fulton. Henry Holland, State Department chief for Latin American Affairs, growled that "under our system [Fulton] has a right to say anything he wants." Peppery U.S. Ambassador James Scott Kemper poured oil on the fire by canceling the Congressman's invitation to a Rio embassy reception just as Fulton finished dressing for the party...
...publishing renaissance in the U.S. In addition to this one-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, bookstores offer a collection of his bright sayings (The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde; John Day; $4) and a half-personal, half-literary memoir by his son, who took the name Vyvyan Holland (Son of Oscar Wilde; Dutton; $3.75). All of these anticipate the centenary of Wilde's birth (1856). Is he worth rereading? Much of his work is, and almost all is worth at least re-browsing...
...Latin Americans agree that a raising of this standard of living can no longer be postponed. Says Henry Holland, the State Department's top official for Latin American affairs: "Perhaps the most important single economic development in the hemisphere is the growing determination among men everywhere somehow ... to feed, clothe, house and educate themselves and their families better." But what should be done...
...discuss "My Favorite Era," but offered nothing more than the desire "to be one of those professors on the staff of Alexander the Great and go all over the world with him. But as the father of a family, I'd like to live, say, in Holland in 1880." CBS-TV's new interview show, Face the Nation, had for its first guest Senator Joe McCarthy. Also giving out with little that was new or stimulating, he just horsed around plowing old furrows (the "lynching bee," "Communism in government...