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For 25 years Chicago has longed for a ditch between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi so that she may become a "seaport." Other cities on the Great Lakes have blocked Chicago-sued her, brought injunctions, vilified her-maintaining that to fill such a ditch to a navigable depth would lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago's Ditch | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

The Cabinet's "Little Coalition" was of the Centre, shrewdly designed to weave and weasel between the Socialist Left and the Nationalist Right. The Nationalists have been supporting Herr Gessler because they thought he was preparing in secret an army of revenge; while the Socialists have credited him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 1' Christmas Crisis'' | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Warmed with a lively knowledge of human hypocrisy, and desiring to make the best possible disposal of certain resources which had served him, in his lifetime, jauntily and well, Charles Vance Millar, Canadian turfman, corporation lawyer, sat down to write his last will and testament. When he died recently his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Birth Race | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

By such clowning the Soviet populace is painlessly "educated." But of late there have not been enough clowns at the Government's disposal. Last week, as the "Academy" was opened, it was announced that "Bim" and "Bom" famed and beloved Russian clowns will be employed as instructors.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clown Academy | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Some months ago (TIME, Aug. 30) the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce published a survey that showed the U. S. leading the world in commercial aviation with some 5,500,000 miles flown, some 200,000 passengers in the past year. The figures were misleading because: 1) The geographical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Germany Leads | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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