Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's "City" viewed this Keynes Plan askance as "totalitarianism." The Times feared it would decrease production of consumer goods at a time when unemployment is still high, but said the plan "deserves the most serious examination." To Tommy in the trenches, it sounded fine...
Princess Wilhelmina's life was mostly work and little play. At ten her father died and she became Queen, with her able mother acting as Regent. On her first appearance on the balcony of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam she is said to have asked: "Mama, do all these people belong to me?" Queen Emma answered: "No, my child, it is you who belong to all these people." Her preparation by private tutors for queenship was guided by this principle. At 18, in 1898, she was crowned in the New Church at Amsterdam, swearing to support the Constitution...
...mother, the conscientious leader, the faithful churchgoer. Because of her strong Calvinism, her words came to carry almost a scriptural weight among the nobility of The Hague and Utrecht, the patrician families of Amsterdam, all the older townspeople and villagers in the strongly Protestant North. Nor could it be said that she was intolerant; Jews and Catholics came to idolize...
...must fit the proper specifications of a Prince Consort. He must be of royal blood, a Protestant, of flawless character, in perfect health. He was all that, but he also proved to have a few rather mild modern ideas. He liked cocktails, he was fond of speeding. He was said to have lost his head a bit when he suddenly found himself minus debts and with a yearly allowance of $106,000 from the Government. Her Majesty did not approve, but she was said to have softened up a bit when she became a grandmother. A girl, Beatrix, was born...
Japan's troops, who were able as usual to make an unresisted landing, pushed inland rapidly, advancing 30 miles in three days. The Chinese said they were dropping back to draw their enemy across the coastal plain into hills where they could be disastrously stopped. But this tactic would not prevent the Japanese from establishing air bases on the plain, from which they could easily and systematically bomb the two supply routes...