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...Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until Wilhelmina reached 18 and was crowned...
Energetic Yaleman Turck last month officially announced the formation of Holland House, with such potent directors as Chase National's Winthrop Aldrich, International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson, Standard Oil of New Jersey's W. S. Farish, Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon...
...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...
...Fight for Peace (Warwick) is a bitter, angry omnibus of war, given point & purpose by a tart narrative from the pen of author Hendrik Willem Van Loon. These patched-fogether newsreel shots show actual scenes from modern war: liquid fire spraying Ethiopia; China's cities, roadsides and streams piled with stinking dead; anguished Spanish mothers digging their mangled children from smoking ruins, as big, black bombers wheel off overhead...