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TIME [April 6] requests the comments of disabled veterans on the "Sucker" ad. My own personal reaction is one of mild amusement, for the following reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Punk, is just Papa's check, with his signature in the lower right hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1936 | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...your issue of April 6, you expressed the desire to learn "what disabled veterans think of the Peaceways 'Sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...resent being called a sucker. That's a low-down insult, a slap at all my buddies who went west, as well as those of us still carrying on. Would World Peaceways dare tell any Gold Star Mother her son was a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...cannot sign our names to this, but it is no crank letter. You want to know what the disabled veterans think about the World Peace-ways "Hello, Sucker" matter. Here is what two of us think, and we know there are many more who would say the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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