Word: willem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paraphrased Hendrik Willem Van Loon: ". . . Our left flank has been annihilated, our right flank has surrendered, and our centre is beginning to give way; we shall therefore proceed to the attack...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
...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...
...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...