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...political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made the focus of all Russia, the Secretariat of the Communist Party. Last week M. Stalin ordered dropped from the Cabinet of Premier Rykoff-of which he, himself, is not a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Alone | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

This charge, brought by the Lloyd Georgian Daily Chronicle, reverberated fitfully throughout the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: The Week in Parliament Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, drifting slightly out of their course and bringing up in the Dutch East Indies There, on the island called Komodo, they had seen a portent-two enormous captive dragons, ten feet long, with claws and jaws rapacious enough to slaughter horses, veritable St. Georgian monsters,* "emitting fumes not unlike smoke. Cobham planned to rest at Melbourne only long enough to have his ship overhauled. Then he was off again for England. He hoped to prove the feasibility of air-routes over impenetrable, hazardous portions of the globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: England to Australia | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

Married For the fourth time, Mae Murray, film actress, allegedly 33, to David Bivaini, 27, native of the Georgian Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...combination of good Georgian which, after all is a classical derivative with good classical stuff is a very usual one in American architecture of the early part of the nineteenth century. Pleasing results were often achieved notably in the country houses in Virginia to which Mr. Jefferson added porticos. The trouble here is one of scale as well as of style. However, so far, there is nothing royalty goal at to end of the Yard except the new President's house, built by Mr. Lowell. This house is well matched in its manner with the oldest buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Architectural Atrocities New and Old | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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