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But generally speaking the candidates, even though at the moment they may not be considered exceptionally "big" men politically, have enough ability, honesty, intelligence, and common-sense to recommend themselves to most observers. Such are the fundamental prerequisites of Republican nominees today. In the following five months the nominees--whoever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ELEPHANT GOES TO WORK | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile in France where the Press normally enjoys a freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Let's Be Friends! | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

The great flaw of free governments has long been declared to dwell in the distortion of public opinion and in the misinformation of consistently biased newspapers. With the gradual development of a kind of rebuttal campaigning like the Smith-Robinson speeches and the proposed Communist vs. Capitalist arguments of Earl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RADIO DEMOCRACY | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

PETER, CALLED THE GREAT-Maurice Bethel Jones-Stokes ($3). Heavily romanticized biography which makes Peter out a queer mixture of hysterical stallion and sadistic genius. ARTIFEX: SKETCHES AND IDEAS-Richard Aldington - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Miscellaneous papers by an English writer whom the modern England much annoys. THE LADY OF BLEEDING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Cuban friends then considered mildly mad. Cuban mothers cooped up their daughters in the Spanish tradition of despotic chaperonage tempered by matrimonial intrigue. And Mr. Frederick Snare was a rising U. S. contracting engineer who in Cuba specialized, as he still does, in "Piers and Warehouses, Power Plants, Bridges, Sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Snare Jubilee | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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