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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, everyone knows all about "King Gustav"; and it becomes preferable to write of a svelte and charming woman whom one does not hesitate to call, in homage, "Queen Kate." She, Frau Gustav Stresemann, was Fraeulein Kate Kleeseld. Her father was one of the great industrialists, including Hugo Stinnes, in whose service Gustav Stresemann began to grow great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vivat Gustavus Rex! | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

Youth: ". . . A Government that does not constantly seek to live up to the ideals of its young men and women falls short of what the American people have a right to expect and demand from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover's Speech | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...King Alfonso XIII, Queen Victoria Eugenie and their second son, the Infante Don Jaime. These royal persons, having read the final newspaper accounts of asphyxiation aboard the F14, proceeded to quiet their nerves by entering the Spanish super-submarine 51, which promptly dived beneath Atlantic billows for a short, serene voyage, a safe return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Twin Disasters | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...short time before the Nobile dirigible Italia plunged to destruction the "magnetic component" was worked out by Professor Aldo Pontremoli, who is now missing on the Polar ice. "He came toward me radiant with joy," said General Nobile, "crying that he had finished the calculation at last. He told me the figure, which, fortunately, I can still remember. Whoever is acquainted with these scientific problems will realize the immense value of this discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medal | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Died. J. Randolph Coolidge, 66, famed Boston architect (Coolidge & Carlson), onetime president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; after a short illness; at Center Sandwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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