Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Port Everglades Rock Co. at Fort Lauderdale in 1947 when then Governor Millard Caldwell appointed him to the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission. Eight years later, President Eisenhower named him to fill a Democratic vacancy on the Federal Communications Commission. Said Florida's Democratic Senator Spessard Holland at Mack's Senate confirmation hearings: "I may say that he was strongly recommended for this post by both Senator [George] Smathers and myself and, in fact, by our whole delegation from Florida." He was recommended by Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins...
...them. Last week the church in Cuba shifted adroitly into opposition to Strongman Fulgencio Batista by calling for a "national-unity government" to replace his. By contrast, the U.S. State Department has sometimes had an unhappy knack of appearing to back the dictators. Former Inter-American Affairs Chief Henry Holland publicly hailed Peron as a "great Argentine." Secretary of State Dulles took time during one of his two visits to Latin America to pay a courtesy call on Colombia's Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. since kicked out. The recent U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela. beaming Dempster Mclntosh. was photographed...
...Government also charged that RCA made cartel agreements with such foreign firms as Holland's Philips Lamp Works, West Germany's Telefunken and Great Britain's Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. (all named as coconspirators) not to license for manufacture or export their products into each other's sales territories, thus denied U.S. consumers the opportunity to buy competitive foreign radio apparatus...
...Holland saw a first novel by a Dutch lady of 67. Her writer's stock in trade was elementary-just a bagful of old memories. Yet with them she managed to fashion a book whose style owes nothing to other writers, whose substance is the stuff of a faraway East Indies setting both languorous and violent. In translation, Maria Dermout's The Ten Thousand Things is an uncommon reading experience, an offbeat narrative that has the timeless tone of legend. Sybille Bedford, another late-starting, first-rate first novelist (TIME, Feb. n, 1957), has put it well: "Someone...
Author Presser, 58, himself a Jew and a professor of history at Amsterdam University, lost his first wife in an extermination camp, lived in hiding in Holland until war's end. What he has written is not a horror novel, despite its horrible theme. It is, rather, a deeply moving story of the terror that lies beyond remorse for the man who fails himself by failing others...