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When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reprieve | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...conclusion two workmen in spotless white overalls applied more mortar and guided the stone into place with a professional air. President Conant announced that the stone was properly laid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORNERSTONE FOR LITTAUER CENTER LAID BY FOUNDER | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...Spotless Panay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Another skit named important Boston officials as proprietors of a laundry that turned out clothing "as spotless as Revere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL THREE BOTTLE LABELS GET SCHOLARSHIP IN 1987? | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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