Word: hendrik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss of the new organization is plump, pink-cheeked General Secretary Jacobus Hendrik Oldenbroek, 52. Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said...
Back at the factory, Nijverdal's union leaders felt the same way. "Before help came last spring," said Cornelius Kalkhoven, company representative of the Christian National Federation of Trade Unions, "you could feel the tension through your wooden shoes." Said the Catholic union's young Hendrik Grondman: "Our men will never go back to the peat bogs...
Died. Dr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 54, South Africa's brilliant longtime Minister of Finance and Education, onetime Deputy Prime Minister and able lieutenant to Field Marshal Smuts; constant advocate of improved conditions for Negroes; of coronary thrombosis; in Johannesburg...
...Hendrik Ibsen's "A Doll House" will be staged in Radcliffe's Agassiz theater tonight at 8:15 o'clock by the Tributary Players of Boston under the sponsorship of the Graduate Chapter of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will go on the read next month to Simmons College and Boston University, when it winds up a Sanders Theater run of Hendrik Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" with a tour across the Charles on Friday and Saturday, November...