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...rename the tallest mountain in Europe after II Duced would christen the towering crag: MOUNT MUSSOLINI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Turati Rampant | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Henry H. Rogers, Manhattan sportsman-oilman, father of famed Millicent Rogers, Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Vermonters, unable to find any single mountain upon which to bestow the name of their distinguished native son, have decided to christen four mountains "Coolidge Range." The bill to accomplish this, now pending in the Vermont legislature, originally included Killington, Pico and Shrewsbury Mountains. Last week Salt Ash Mountain was added to "Coolidge Range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Signorina Edda Mussolini, 16-year-old daughter of II Duce, flung a champagne bottle last week at the stem of a great liner, crying: "I christen thee Augustus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alalas | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Herr Bürgermeister Petersen of Hamburg ducked and dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Deutschland Star-Spangled | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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