Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday. Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, 57; at Het Loo, her country seat, near Apeldoorn...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt this week started U. S. Minister to Haiti George Anderson Gordon on a 5,500-mile sea journey from sunny squalor to scrubbed prosperity, from slender mulattoes to broad-beamed Nordics, from Haiti to The Hague, where he will be accredited to regally pink-&-white Queen Wilhelmina instead of to duskily diffident Haitian President Stenio Vincent. Saying an official goodby to Port-au-Prince meant having sent down from Manhattan presents for pickaninnies in the hospital patronized by Mrs. Gordon and choice viands including meat for the banquet Minister Gordon served to mulatto dignitaries who, of course...
Plenty of sound, solid flesh is what ample Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands thinks should be on Crown Princess Juliana. From this opinion many a prospective royal suitor of past years differed and so did the jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon...
They arrived in Rotterdam in time to see Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina seize a hatchet of steel inlaid with gold, and sever with one blow the launching rope of the largest liner The Netherlands have built, the 33,000-ton Nieuw Amsterdam slated to maiden-voyage to Manhattan in the Spring...
...Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday dress. In these becoming circumstances Her Majesty's Government, with the benevolent concurrence of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, authorized the marriage of Petronella & Martinus to be held as the only other marriage in The Netherlands on the wedding day of H. R. H. Juliana...