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...subjects, good or bad, and think they are producing logical and accurate results. High-powered U. S. businessmen are often Gemini. So are gold-digging women. Childishness, thin lips, lung trouble are Gemini characteristics. Under this sign were born Douglas Fairbanks, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Patrick Henry, Alighieri Dante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Cincinnati, Queen City of the West, focus of seven trunk railroads, sent 1,000 of its leading citizens to the capacious roof garden of its Hotel Gibson last week to dine with George Dent Crabbs and to laud him with all their might for persuading the railroads to build a $40,000,000 freight terminal and a $35,000,000 union station. Other Cincinnatians had striven towards the same ends since 1899. Mr. Crabbs, president of the Cincinnati Railroad Terminal Development Co., after only four years of wise, eloquent persuasion, succeeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen City | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...southern hamlet, village and town. So thriving was Cincinnati that when private developers would not build a railroad to Chattanooga, Tenn., the city itself provided funds and built the Cincinnati Southern Railway, 336 miles long, the only first class railroad owned by a U. S. municipality. Cincinnati was the Queen City of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen City | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Queen City | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

Born. To the King and Queen of Jugoslavia, a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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