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...Georgia, Cooper of Ohio, Barkley of Kentucky, Lowry of Mississippi, Senator Jones of Washington, Senator Willis of Ohio. Mr. Wheeler was excused then to be called back later. What had already occurred, however, though not sensational, was enough to arouse a storm. The New York Daily News, gumchewers' sheetlet exclaimed (of Wheeler's League): ". . . This incubus on American liberty, this tumor of religion perverted to bigotry and tyranny, must be cut out of the body politic." In Congress Senator Willis exclaimed: "I am not now and never have been on the payroll of the Anti-Saloon League...
...their convention last week. No sooner said than done. Almost simultaneously Publisher William J. Conners Jr. of Buffalo announced that he had effected the demise of the tabloid Buffalo Star and Enquirer. But Publisher Conners was not actuated purely by disapproval of tabloid technic. He had lumped the sheetlet in with his other holdings, the lately-merged Courier and Express (TIME, June 21). Four months ago Buffalo had six daily papers and Publisher Conners three competitors in the morning field. Now Buffalo has three daily papers,-two of them evening. Publisher Conners is autocrat of the Buffalo breakfast table...
...upon which they can hang any laurel wreaths that may happen to win, something, too, which will make them careless whether they ever win the laurels. When activity, subways full of straphangers, overhead, turnover, widgets, gross profits, and your picture on the front page of a gum-chewer's sheetlet are not the summum bonnet of college graduate, and the emphasis is not on what goes out of college, but on what comes in and why, the Messrs. Andrus of the world will be out of jobs as oracles...
...week following Raquel Meller's $27.50 debut, a Manhattan gum- chewers' sheetlet, the Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...
...sheetlet, of course, misled its readers...