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...There are those who callously maintain that the primaries per se make such expenditures necessary, and do not in any way consider the men who spend the money to blame. That is an old and very evil fallacy which is based on the theory that nothing is immoral that is legal, and that what the other man does justifies your actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Burning Disgrace | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Señor José Mora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Mexico | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

Because President Calles has heretofore never formulated his defiance of Catholicism in such polite terms, the aged Achbishop emerged "beaming" from his perusal of a letter which addressed him simply as "Señor" ("Mister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: In Mexico | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...LORD OF LABRAZ-Pio Baroja -Knopf ($2.50). The Spanish hail Señor Baroja as their most popular living talespinner. He writes a little like Dickens, a little like Stevenson, always like a Spaniard-that is, with bold light, harsh shading. His story here is quite simple-a blind nobleman in a priest-ridden hill town quixotically shoulders his brother's misdeeds, earning only calumny and spite from the populace, renouncing society and going to wander, Lear-like, over the bleak table-lands with a wronged barmaid for his Cordelia, a Basque beggar for Poor Tom. It is fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...them) might be refuted by a treatise soundly but exclusively sociobiological, is also a question. Nevertheless, Biologist Popenoe's sound book, the first in its field, is far more than an academic disputation. It is advanced with the prime intention of promoting study of the family, per se, through the biologist's lens. Consequently it is packed with orderly, unsensational, valuable facts-the cell- scientist's facts on human polygamy, premarital incontinence, celibacy, size of family, optimum ages of motherhood, abortion, divorce, cousins marrying, etc., etc. There is strong meat in it for thoughtful persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

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