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Sirs: Your Joplin correspondent (TIME, May 4) appears to think that I am undignified-or worse -in having the make, price and my name and endorsement painted on the side of my car. To him I am a "motorized sandwichman." I am a stockholder in the Hudson Motor Car Co., makers of my $595 Essex, and as a stockholder I am playing my part in endeavoring to sell their product, which is also, as a stockholder, mine. Maybe that's undignified-but if all stockholders of all companies were salesmen for their products, maybe we would have less unemployment...
Last week Barney Oldfield, onetime auto-racer, revisited Joplin. Driving a small standard coupe with its bargain price painted cheaply on the side, he raced neither against time nor more vulnerable competition, a kind of motorized sandwichman. Arriving at the local agency of the motorcar manufacturer, he was greeted by two auto salesmen and two small boys, sons of employes of the firm. Their requests for Oldfield autographs were the only echo of the clamoring crowd of 25 years...
Aaron Reuben, famed Manhattan sandwichman, sold his oldtime restaurant on upper Broadway ("Reuben's?That's All") but pledged himself to continue his establishment, still popular after midnight, on Madison Avenue; his Philadelphia restaurant on South Broad Street...
Convicted owner-drivers will be placed by the police in public stocks for 30 minutes. Convicted chauffeurs will have their hands trussed behind them, will wear a sandwichman's placard setting forth their infamy, will be marched around the principal streets of Bucharest by constables for one hour. In addition, both drivers and chauffeurs will be liable to the usual fines, imprisonments...
...crushes the baby, and John, frenzied, tries to stop the city because his child is sick. The acid of the tragedy bites his brain. He loses his job, his work fibre loosens, he is out of step with the crowd. When Mary threatens to leave him, he gets a sandwichman job; the work fibre tightens, and John Sims. Everyman, is once more running with the pack, happy...