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...ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aftermath | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

Welcome. "Welcomed to Denver by whooping cowboys firing six-guns in salvos, by knife-wielding 'Injuns,' by rough and tumble cops, clanging police patrols and screaming fire wagons, not to mention dang sweet-looking cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: International Advertisers | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Other runners: Fighting Stag, Rushing Water, Falcon, Big White Deer, Sweet Eagle, Chochee, Jamon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Marathon | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...whether the publication of crime news prevents or incites crime, Mr. Hearst concluded that it had very little effect either way. Crime news is printed, said Mr. Hearst, because "whatever reflects life truthfully must deal with the harsh and cruel things in life as well as with the sweet and lovely things." All in all, Mr. Hearst felt that the newspaper reader blessed with "the reasoning mind" would be led to believe, having read the crime news of the day, "that 'honesty is the best policy' and "that 'the wages of sin is death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst on Crime | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...Leading the list of such exceptional pastimes would rank the activities of the men who will man the Crimson sweeps on the turgid waters of the Thames tomorrow. Fortunately, from this point of view their number is small, but since it follows quite naturally that the reward is sweet in proportion to the number which shares the same, we pause to commiserate but remain to applaud. You nine men of the crew, all honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROW IN WISDOM | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

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