Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotland Yard its sleuths had to admit last week that they could not find a $35,000 diamond bracelet lost at the Duke of Kent's wedding by the No. 1 bridesmaid, Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, dumpling daughter of the World's Wealthiest Woman, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina...
Netherlands. If other money-masters were too nervous, Queen Wilhelmina's square-headed, imperturbable Finance Minister Pieter Jacobus Oud was decidedly too calm...
...Hague last week Her Majesty's Government issued a circular declaring that "the word 'Dutch' must be replaced by 'Netherland' to remove the possibility of disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...
...preparing to balance the 1935 budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...