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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest distinction granted this University comes as a result of the capabilities of four of its students and one of its librarians. Failing to see why Harvard should be excluded from activities in which Greater Boston shows keen interest, these five entered the current "Zain" ad-writing contest--and emerged prize-winners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

TIME [April 6] requests the comments of disabled veterans on the "Sucker" ad. My own personal reaction is one of mild amusement, for the following reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, the folks take real interest in the Tercentenary. Even Frank W. Meyer, the proprietor of the local meat market, realizes its power, as the following ad, greatly reduced in size, will testify. It appeared in the daily "Sleepy Eye Progressive" last fall, and was uncovered in the "Crime" yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Column | 4/22/1936 | See Source »

...your issue of April 6, you expressed the desire to learn "what disabled veterans think of the Peaceways 'Sucker' ad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Next to Vassar's "Future Gold Star Mothers," I think the above mentioned ad the rottenest exhibition of very bad taste that I have known in my entire lifetime. There is nothing in the drool (in smaller print) under the cartoon that can lessen the sting of the picture and its caption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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