Word: hollander
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Following its annual custom Phillips Brooks House is conducting a spring drive for old clothes and books during the next two weeks to provide clothes for the needy in Holland and to add books to its textbook lending library. Donations are being collected by PBH representatives in the Houses...
...garments collected in the drive ordinarily are sent to charitable institutions in the United States, but in response to an urgent appeal from the Dutch Union of Voluntary Women Workers the donations this year will be shipped directly to Holland...
...Bruin, writing from Holland, stressed that the clothing situation in Europe is still far from solved despite the recent UNRRA collections in the United States. "It will take us many months, if not years," she said, "before we have helped all the villages which the Germans pillaged...
...Florida, Spessard Lindsey Holland, ex-Governor (1941-45), friend of Senator Claude Pepper, had no trouble beating demagogue ex-Representative Robert Alexis Green for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Charles O. Andrews...
Bernhard, who pilots his own plane, recently toured Scandinavia with Juliana ("Lula" to him) to thank the ruling houses for the relief sent Holland. The Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...