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...Hoch! Hoch! Hoch!" roared the crowd, while only the royal colors of Bavaria (white & light blue) streamed in the breeze. Impressionable, warmhearted, those jolly South-Germans were on a veritable spree of local patriotism. Prussia, land of shaven polls and square jaws, seemed alien and dis-tant-the Enemy, with its feverish industrialism and its cold, northern Berlin. They were Bavarians, and before them stood their "Rightful King." Was he not even a Hero-King? Certainly he had been a Feldmarschall during the War, and commanded troops which struck fast and far into enemy territory. Suddenly, in a bright emotional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Rightful King | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides him. Soon the sheriff comes. In a ludicrous trial, Kit is ac quitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Apple Pie, Red Pepper | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon, 57, President of the National Tem- perance Society, ardent Presbyterian Prohibitionist; of heart dis- ease; in Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...leading citizens of Wisconsin, both of whom talk well, talked last week: John J. Elaine, retiring Governor, U. S. Senator-elect, dis- ciple of the late great, free-speech liberal, Robert M. LaFollette; Glenn Frank, President of the University of Wisconsin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disciple ? | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Republican Senators, ill particular, had many vexing items to dis cuss-not the least of which was the status of Arthur R. Gould, the pride of Aroostook County, Maine. Mr. Gould was the Republican nominee for Senator to succeed the late Senator Bert M. Fernald, and was expected to win the special election last week without a murmur. But, one week before election, noxious charges against him began to pop up. His Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Maine | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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