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Battling against this first report, plump German Delegate Dr. Carl Melchior was backed by "The Three Little Neutrals": Switzerland's Dr. Brindschedla, Holland's Mynheer Colijin, Sweden's Herr Rydbeck. They deadlocked the Committee which found itself obliged to draft and lay before the world a second and quite different report with these conclusions...
...Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfort-more bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward...
Announcements of the General Motors-Fokker deal stressed the fact that Anthony H. G. Fokker would continue in charge of Fokker engineering and design. It was back in 1911 that Mynheer Anthony Fokker, then 21, decided that he wanted to fly. Having no plane, he built...
...Mynheer Fokker tried to sell his planes to the British Government, but no sale was made. He turned, therefore, to Germany, was enthusiastically received, and, with the outbreak of the War, became suddenly a famed and feared figure. It was the Fokker DVII that brought down many an allied plane; it was Herr Fokker that first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North...
...mansion where bullets pinged and splintered, last week, was that of socially elect Mynheer and Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Servants rushed in to find him shot dead, and her unconscious from a bullet wound in the head. A single revolver lay smoking on the floor...