Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chapter here, will lead the Harvard delegation. Accompanying him are G. Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...
...Nassau Eyes House Plan...
...British Fleet which did not pour across her southern and sea frontiers to meet them, were nevertheless still at their jump-off positions. All of which put The Netherlands in World War II's very toughest spot and made Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Queen of The Netherlands, the world's most worried Chief of State...
...House of Nassau can trace its origin to 800, its members settling in the Lowlands from Germany in 1400. The Orange-Nassau line barely missed dying out with Wilhelmina's father, William III. William's first wife and two sons died one after the other. At 62 he married the 20-year-old Princess Emma, of Waldeck-Pyrmont, a small German State. Of that marriage the sole issue was Wilhelmina, born August 31, 1880. Repeal of the Salic Law forbidding female rulers allowed her to succeed to the throne...
Almost all the well-to-do families in The Netherlands have their East Indian securities, and not the least investor is the House of Orange-Nassau. Century ago King William I invested $1,600,000 in the East. Large profits accrued, the capital multiplied many times again. Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her income was once estimated at $5,000,000 a year, making her by far the richest monarch of Europe...