Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the Gardner Said Sirs: You might like to know what our gardner (a very comical man) said when he finished chuckling over your The Voter's Dream cartoon. "Well, Sir!" he said, "nothing ain't tickled my wrinkled old wattles so in ten year!" Old John comes from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat...
...Very Fine" Sirs: . . . Unquestionably a very fine and significant cartoon. At what price can you supply me with additional copies? JOHN GLASS Baltimore, Md. Printed on high-grade cardboard, $1. Framed (plain black frame), $2. - ED. "Shame!" Sirs: I am an admirer of the Rev. Dr. John R. Straton. Your cartoon of him as a roach has upset me as few things could. Shame! You may cancel my husband's subscription. PEARL ROSE JACKSON (Mrs. Horace Jackson) New York City TIME will cancel Subscriber Horace Jackson's subscription if and when Subscriber Horace Jackson so orders. - ED. Would...
Fifteen Cents Sirs: You will find 15? in stamps attached to this note. Please mail a copy of TIME containing The Voter's Dream to the Rev. Dr. John Cockroach Straton. Your cartoon will enable him to see himself as every intelligent person has seen him for years. On second thought, I am attaching another 15? for the benefit of Wm. E. Vare, the "Senator-suspect." REYNOLDS PHIPPS Philadelphia...
...nitrate project at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. Whether the Government shall sell Muscle Shoals, or lease it to privateers, or keep and operate it itself, has been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript: "You may say that means Muscle Shoals...
...Raymond John Dodge '31 of Melrose Highlands, David Cabot Forbes '31 of Milton, James Lester Madden '31 of Boston, and Ludlow Whitaker Stevens '31 of Tuxedo park, New York, were elected to the Business Board...