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...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
...Carl 8. Oakman, Jr. (H) defeated J. Carr (N), 14-16, 15-10, 15-8, 15-9; R. Coombs (N) defeated Robert M. Mitchell (H), 15-12, 15-7, 15-10; George F. Tyler (H) defeated N. Burnett (N), 15-8, 11-15, 13-15, 15-13, 15-9; Hendrik De Kruif (H) defeated F. Atwood...
...days later Communist Deputies in the Dutch Parliament demanded a debate on the Amsterdam riots and the issue that is breeding trouble: reduction by Her Majesty's Government of dole payments to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Boomed Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "We do not consent to debate this issue." By a vote of 58 to 24 he was upheld and scowling Dutch proletarians cursed their Queen...
...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...
...fair June morning in 1668, more than half a century after the mutinous crew of the Discovery had pushed Hendrik Hudson into an open boat in Hudson Bay and set him adrift to die, the 50-ton ketch Nonsuch with a company of 42 hoisted anchor in Gravesend, England and sailed away for Hudson Bay to open up the fur trade. On promise of receiving "two elks and two black beavers." King Charles II gave the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" a charter two years later for the exclusive trade...