Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down to the Hook of Holland went good Queen Wilhelmina and had a good cry with Crown Princess Juliana who rushed home from England last week at news of the death by heart failure of her father, Dutch Prince Consort Henry (TIME, July 9). The two women drove at once to The Hague and sat an hour with the corpse. In this sad hour Dutch proletarians might have buried their quarrel with Her Majesty's Government over recent dole payment cuts. Instead they chose to erupt at Amsterdam in savage riots which spread through 17 districts and forced...
Died. Hendrik Wladimir Albrecht Ernst, 58, Duke of Mecklemburg, modes, self-effacing Prince-Consort of The Netherlands; of heart trouble; at The Hague. He married Queen Wilhelmina...
...Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After the death of King William III in 1890. she acted as regent for eight years. Died- Jacob Seibert, 76, arduous and Ciceronian editor of the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, dean of Wall Street weeklies; following...
...highly local question of Borneo, directly opposite Singapore at a distance of 350 miles, it was impossible for a British or Dutch officer in active service to express himself publicly last week. What can be said was very well said at The Hague last month by Queen Wilhelmina's onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands East Indies (including Borneo) defense forces, Lieut-General Gerth...
...massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...