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"Ileana," said Her Majesty crisply, "will probably not marry for a year at least, nor will her brother Nicholas. . . . Ileana liked the way American boys danced and conducted themselves. She liked their great deference and reverence toward womankind, too. I would have no objection to her marrying a nice young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: A Queen's Heart | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Cotsworth-Eastman proposed calendar [TIME, June 27] would produce hopeless confusion in rearrangement of dates, would make obsolete all present dating machines and apparatus containing such. Another objection, important in eyes of hard-worked businessmen: would give them three (or two) days less summer vacation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Suggest & Recommend | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: Permit me to correct an impression that might be created in the minds of some readers by the ill-natured and silly letter in the June 13 number of Time signed CYRIL D. H. G. DILLINGTON-DOWSE. I am an Englishman of 25 years' residence in London and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

¶Flyers Chamberlin and Levine hustled to Bremen to meet their respective wives, who arrived from the U. S. Said Mrs. Chamberlin on seeing her husband: "Why, your knickers are awful. Didn't you even have them cleaned?" Then the two couples flew to Berlin in three hops. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chamberlin & Levine | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Reforestation. A frequently brought forward measure of flood-control has been reforestation. One objection to this scheme is that the Mississippi went on one of the greatest floods of its history in 1844 when the valley was thickly forested.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Flood | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

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