Word: hollands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agreement between Britain, France, India, Japan, Holland, Portugal and Siam to Abolish opium smoking in the Far East within 15 years from the date when a League commission shall have declared that China has curbed overproduction of opium and eliminated the danger of smuggling. (The U. S. delegation wanted the prohibition made immediately effective...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...
...Quietly, at the State Department, Secretary Hughes signed an agreement with Dr. De Graeff, Minister from the Netherlands, agreeing to arbitrate a controversy with Holland over the possession of the Isle of Talmas, a map-fleck near the Philippines...
...There is a project in hand to cut a canal between the Rhine and the Danube in Bavaria, called the Ludwigs Kanal. It is expected to be completed in 1932 and will open a navigable watercourse of over 2,500 miles from Rotterdam in Holland to Sulina in Rumania-from the North to the Black Seas...
Dean Donham presided at the dinner and short talks were given by Harry Dwight Smith of Cleveland for the jury, and Lou E. Holland, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs. Among the guests was Conde Nast of the Nast Publications, New York City...