Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...after a previous visit to the Indies, had publicly made some abusive remarks about the Dutch. The Dutch said he would not be acceptable. The Japanese sent instead a Cabinet Minister, Ichizo Kobayashi of Commerce and Industry. To receive him fittingly, Queen Wilhelmina cabled from London raising Hubertus J. Van Mook. Director of the Department of Economic Affairs, to the rank of Cabinet Minister of the Dutch Government-in-Exile...
...which is a pinprick in the seat of the Army's breeches. Another pinprick was violent criticism by the Legislature of the U. S. Army for starting construction of an airport on private property which the Army intended to purchase. The Army's Commander, Major General Daniel Van Voorhis, was refused permission to sit in a pew of the British Legation at an Independence Day service in Panama Cathedral...
Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
...fell in with bad company-flamboyant Jim Fisk, piratical Jay Gould, pious Daniel Drew. Together they manipulated her back and forth from bonanza to bankruptcy, got her known as the "Scarlet Lady of Wall Street." Exhausted, the Erie had collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common. In 1938 Erie chugged into receivership (whither eleven Class I roads had preceded her) for the fourth time...
...ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...