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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noticed that Premier Sarwat Pasha of Egypt stepped from the train only to slip off in the company of Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain. Theirs was the meeting of real importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pomp of Impotence | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flying World | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...daughter of U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

People who had found that they could not go to sleep without reading some new adventure of Mr. Holmes will welcome the news that Author Sir Arthur has made the "discovery of another forgotten notebook of Holmes in a strong box that had been hidden away for years." The twelve stories in The Case Book are conclusive evidence that, despite his dubious doctrines on spiritualism, Sir Arthur has lost none of his persuasiveness in inductive yarn-spining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...twelve stories in THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES?Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

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