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Immoral Isabella? There is a salty ballad men sing when they are drunk in which Christopher Columbus pleads noisily for ships and cargo; for which he promises Isabella, queen of Spain, to bring her back Chicago. This play is written in the same spirit, but without the humor. The Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 7, 1927 | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Baldwin Locomotive Works is capitalized for 75 million dollars and controlled by 200,000 shares of common stock and 200,000 shares of preferred stock. During the past eight months the prices of the common shares have been the amazement of the stock markets. They have sold for as low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Baldwin Directors | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing?reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

Three days after the Bellanca-Martine announcement, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh emerged from conferences in Washington to speak five sentences concerning "the establishment at an early date of a passenger-carrying air transport line that will be national in its scope." Possible allies of Colonel Lindbergh are such men as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Passenger Airlines | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine were last week enjoying the hospitality of Germans, resting in the watering place known as Baden-Baden, inspecting huge multi-motored airships at the Dornier and Zeppelin plants. Some of their doings: ¶Fraulein Thea Rasche, Germany's only licensed...

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

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