Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagreed heatedly on how the principle ought to work. Flurries of amendments poured onto the floor and out of caucuses; amendments were followed with amendments to other amendments, and for a time it seemed as if only the page boys had no amendments to offer. Florida's Spessard Holland guessed that, altogether, the many proposals on civil rights weighed eight lbs. Part of the Northern liberal opposition to the Dirksen "proposals" stemmed from an unwillingness to accept a Republican-labeled bill; similarly. Republican opposition to tougher proposals from such liberals as Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas and New York Republican...
...visit's end, France promised Peru credit to buy Mystere IV jets, military helicopters and electrical equipment. The Prados then flew to Rome. On the agenda: an audience with Pope John XXIII, visits to Britain, Holland and Germany, and an unofficial return trip next week to his beloved France...
Reciprocal Agreement. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the post office received a letter addressed "To a Nice Boy," with the message: "Dear Boy: I will correspond with you. I am a girl. I am 14 years. I live in Holland on an island in the North Sea. I hope...
...Exile Betancourt as a troublemaking embarrassment. In 1955 Governor Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico invited President Figueres of Costa Rica to a meeting in Puerto Rico, where Betancourt, a good friend of both, was then living. The State Department's chief for Latin American Affairs, Henry Holland, hastily got Muñoz Marin on the telephone. He insisted that Muñoz send Betancourt out of Puerto Rico as long as Figueres was there to keep Venezuelan Dictator Pérez Jiménez from thinking that a plot against him was being hatched on U.S. soil...
...independent status. President Eisenhower accepted the Prime Minister's invitation to visit Japan on his way home from Moscow. Kishi also got a favorable reception in Canada. Only in Japan did bitterness appear. The big Tokyo daily newspaper Asahi responded angrily to Florida's Senator Spessard Holland's suggestion that Kishi get the Nobel Peace Prize. "JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace; he is a destroyer of peace." The Tokyo Yomiuri cried that "the people fear the treaty may bring them into a war." Sankei reported that "the feeling in Kishi...