Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, accompanied by Prince Consort Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her only daughter, Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, repaired to Sweden for a visit to King Gustaf and Queen Victoria. The visit is to return that made by King Gustaf to The Hague in 1923 (TIME...
...Magnus Johnson, wife of Minnesota's junior U. S. Senator: " From our Minnesota farm I wrote Mr. Johnson a letter. Said I: 'Every thing is fine on the farm. There are 19 fresh cows and 25 little piggies, with excellent prospects for many more.'" Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands: " The Netherland America Foundation announced that I have accepted from Edward W. Bok, its honorary President, the gift of a window costing $10,000, to be placed on the Niewe Kerk* of Delft, to commemorate the 25th aniversary of my reign...
...international conference in Louvain, 200 Dutch Nationalists staged an anti-Belgium riot. They threw stones, hissed, unfolded Orange banners, cried "Long Live Wilhelmina! Down with Belgium...
...Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, 25 years a Queen, intimated to the Minister of Finance, Jonkheer Dr. R. J. de Geer, that she and her mother, Dowager Queen Emma (65) will share in a proposed cut in the salaries of State officials. The Queen receives 600,000 guilders ($241,200) from the civil list and an allowance of 50,000 guilders ($20,100) for the maintenance of the Royal palaces, as well as the revenue from her private estates, and the income from the large private fortune of the House of Orange...
...There sits a man's mind on the Dutch throne,' said a prominent official of the Dutch Government to me. ' Make no mistake on that point. Wilhelmina's mentality has won the respect of each one of her Ministers, past and present...