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Other members of the cast are: Hugh S. Barbour '42, John Holdberg '42, Robert Stange '41, Arthur Cantor '40, Arthur Porter '40, Clarence Burley '42, Robert Markewich '40, Stephen Van O. Osher '41, Ben Gill '40, Rufus Mathewson '41, Norman Johnson '42, Charles Griffith '40, John B. Rand '43, John Darr '40, Hal Solomon '43, Herbert Weiner '43, Julian Lazarus...
...their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously complained to Germany about some sea mines laid within...
...limousine drew up near a little inn on the German-Dutch border at Venloo. At the wheel was a certain Dutchman named J. Lemmens, posing as a chauffeur. In back was a blond, immaculate Englishman named Sigismund Payne Best, amateur musician, husband of a famous Dutch society painter, Mariettje van Rees, something of a getabout in Dutch circles; owner of a large house mysteriously close to the Royal Palace. With him was dark-haired Captain Richard Henry Stevens, well known as the head of the British Secret Service on the Continent. These two were posing as peace mediators. With them...
...incomes are taxed up to 75%. Within sight, if U. S. leveling tradition holds good, says Author Myers, is the time when taxation will have done for inherited wealth what the repeal of primogeniture and entail did for the great landed estates. In 1930 a Van Rensselaer heir died leaving...
That tradition got off to a flying start with the fight against the colonial laws of primogeniture and entail, which permitted handing down intact such estates as that of the Van Rensselaers (3,000 farms, 436,000 acres). Far more complicated is Author Myers' tracing of that tradition in the struggle against "corporation aristocracy" and inherited wealth. From Andrew Jackson v. the Bank of the U. S. down, it is a fight in which inherited wealth wins the battles and loses the war. Value of Author Myers' documentation is that he keeps his eye on the whole...