Word: hollander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...distress of the Republicans, the Democrats (joined by Maverick Republican Bill Langer) voted down Millikin's amendment 49-46. Then, much to their own surprise, the Republicans, joined by Virginia's Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, Colorado's Edwin Johnson and Florida's Spessard Holland, defeated the George amendment...
Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...
...mediums of exchange are the rupiah of Indonesia and the hwan of Korea." Few of these odd currencies cross Ryus' desk directly, since normally TIME International subscription orders, paid for in local currencies, are cleared through branches of world banks, such as New York's National City, Holland's Amster-damsche Bank, Italy's Banca Commerciale. There the money is converted and credited to TIME'S U.S. dollar account. "It's all pretty routine," says Ryus, "except when we get a barrelful of 'pazooties.' " "Pazooties" are what the International staffers call...
...long as the provisions held out, they were happy enough. In time, however, liquor and money were replaced by boredom and disillusionment. When at last the yacht reached Southampton, the passengers, thoroughly fed up and no longer so fearful of war, debarked and found their own way back to Holland. Last August, when President Robert himself came limping home, he was promptly tossed in a Maastricht jail, accused of swindling...
...Root of Evil. Sheriff Meeks had been, as he says, "bird-doggin'" for evidence to back up his charge of murder against Holland. As this week began he was still trying to uncover two important pieces of evidence: the murder gun and shoes that will match the plaster casts. "This scientific investigatin' ain't my dish of tea," he says, "but I got one big advantage. These people around here will talk to me." The sheriff is not as confident about the immediate future of Kanab...