Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large customers. Nations have about quit settling with one another, financially. But the bank does a lot of observing and thinking, and last week the most newsworthy observation of its annual report was a carefully documented conclusion that government spending cannot cure Depression. The bank's president, Johan Willem Beyen of The Netherlands, used the U. S. as a prime example of that policy's failure. Main thesis of the report, however, was not so much that U. S. spending since 1933 had been misguided ("natural forces of recovery were partly strengthened and partly hampered by the action...
...Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden from the Government...
Last week, as the winter symphonic season approached its end, boards of directors and impresarios were either doleful or delighted over prospects for 1938-39. Deepest dumps were in Portland, Ore., where the 27-year-old Portland Symphony, in spite of assiduous nursing by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, gave its last concert and disbanded for lack of funds. Loudest whooping came from Manhattan, where NBC officials announced proudly that famed Maestro Toscanini had signed up for another three years of expensive winter symphonic broadcasts...
...Arts-the story of painting, sculpture, architecture and music-from the days of the caveman until the present time-was written by (1 J. B. Neumann, 2 Pablo Picasso, 3 Hendrik Willem van Loon, 4 Emil Ludwig, 5 Thomas Mann...
Unlike another recent art historian, Hendrik Willem van Loon (TIME, Oct. 4), Critic Cheney has stuck to the visual arts and has in fact written about them, not confining himself to their "background."' Showing a desirable respect for his material, he has also illustrated his book with nearly 500 reproductions of works of art, rather than with sketches of his own. The Cheney history has positive virtues of completeness, modesty and readability, avoids alike the arrogance of parochial "moderns" and the bluster of hidebound conservatives...