Word: mecklenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...globe and diked-in little Holland had both tuned every available radio set to hear the Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince of the German principality...
...monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...
...Last week she left Amsterdam to her devoted troops and police and went on with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside Her Majesty in the State Coach, looking neither to right nor left, while she did the bowing and smiling...
...liquidating". The central committees are periodically "cleansed" of inactive members. If you don't make converts, out you go. The word "liquidate" he heard fifty times a day. All the stubborn problems of life and the world--bad roads, antiquated farming, stealing--were in process of being "liquidated." Mr. Mecklenburg approved of this category...
...least interesting part of this book is a preliminary twenty pages in which the Secretary-Treasurer of the Organized Unemployed, Inc., of Minneapolis--an outgrowth of Dr. Mecklenburg's work at Wesley Church-tells us how the author has grappled with the depression. 400,000 meals served, 400,000 leaves of bread baked and sold for 2 1-2 cents scrip, 10,000 pairs of shoes repaired, 8,000 cords of wood sawed, etc. . . . Mr. Mecklenburg feels that the answer of American religion to Russia must be as concrete as the challenge. To his credit be it said that...