Word: newsstand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio can't be proud of the "gang," of course, but it's going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce...
...Newsstand-buyer Hibbs is not the "old gentleman." Let him read below...
...Newsstand-buyer Conn's suggestion is at variance with the public good and therefore will not be considered by TIME. If each and every one of the 25,000 periodicals in the U. S. should hire six old men, four old ladies and three "able" flappers to ride perpetually between Bowling Green and Brooklyn Bridge "reading conspicuously," the New York subway would become congested...
...Sirs: Newsstand Buyer James Chester Pope's letter amuses me. ... If I were to say what I think of his Big Ten, TIME could not publish my letter if it would, and I wish Mr. Pope could see if possible a list of ten men who actually possess elements of greatness. ... I would name...
Sirs: I agree with Newsstand-Buyer Pope (TIME, Jan. 3) as to only one of his "ten biggest" U. S. citizens - namely Chief Justice Taft. The other nine should be: "Big Bill" Edwards Irvin S. Cobb "Fatty"; Arbuckle Senator Heflin "Pudge" Heffelfinger-* "Phonzo the Fat Man" "Beppo the Big Boy" Elisabeth Marbury, The Doorman at Connie...