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...election had been postponed half a dozen times. The Negro Communist Left and the semi-Fascist ABC had refused to put up candidates, their leaders being either in exile or in mortal fear of Army Chief of Staff Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Meanwhile, over a year ago, a black-browed, cigar-sucking little man named Miguel Mariano Gomez began plugging steadily at building himself into Cuba's dark horse. He was the son of Cuba's second President, Jose Miguel Gomez. He had been an insurgent "Liberal" Mayor of Havana opposed to tyrannical "Liberal" Machado. He had a plump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Plugger's Victory | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...large the public debt of any nation can grow without plunging that nation into disaster is something that no mortal man can calculate. The credit of a nation, like the credit of a man, is good so long as it can make ends meet. After its budget ceases to balance, its credit remains good so long as men believe that its budget will again balance. But how long men will thus believe is not written on the books of any treasury. Conceivably the U. S. might have twice its present public debt and men might still believe its credit good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Billions & Bankers | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...demands that Mrs. Boegler be prosecuted, County Attorney Richard L. Becker said, "I cannot see that any laws are violated by these notes, and besides against such a person able to sway the divine will what could a mere mortal county attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Different | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

Your ideas of accuracy and fairness make you the devil's best mortal messenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

INSPIRED by the success of the first four colleges five others took root before the Revolution interrupted all formal education on our chores. Berriamio Franskin's radically unchruchly University of Pennsylvania and New York's Episcopalism but progressive (king's College demonstrated their mortal tolerance by jointly collecting foods in London. Somewhat later Sam co Occum of the Mobicantribe, was performing that service in England and Scotland for Elenar Wheelock's struggling Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown and Columbia--Architectural Contrasts | 11/1/1935 | See Source »

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