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What has been the result? In the majority of cases the campaigns have degenerated into personal dog-fights. But even the kick-'im-in-the-shins "You're a liar--you're another!" blustering that have resounded in New York are harmless compared to the insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow...
...know that the King of England shouldn't be talked of as if he was just a ordinary human being. We know what's right and proper, and we don't want our TIME mag-axine to be a-flauntin' its Americanism so im-modest-like...
...with his mending; good sounds when he bellows wordlessly to warn his comrades of a gas attack. Photographed with an eye to symbolism, Hell on Earth is outspoken propaganda when it ends with the question: "Where are the five men going?'' A caption answers: "To fight all IM- PERIALISTIC WARS...
...Author. Oswald Spengler chose Germany (Blankenburg im Harz) as his birthplace, history as his province. He studied mathematics, philosophy, art and history in Munich and Berlin, wrote his doctor's thesis on Heraclitus, then subsided into the anonymity of a pedagog. When the first version of Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was finished, he could find no German publisher, brought it out in Vienna. By 1923 it had become a world affair, reached the U. S. in 1926. No longer hidden under a bushel of schoolboys' papers, Spengler's threatening light shines...
...President a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, smart, trim Carlos He via who had been Secretary of Agriculture under President Grau. Whether or not Cubans will accept an "Annapolis President," Senor Hevia's choice caused eyebrows to lift throughout Latin America, created an unfortunate im pression that Mr. Caffery is Cuba's puppeteer. He was said to be displeased with the Annapolis graduate, considering him too radical despite the U. S. discipline...