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...York Evening Graphic, juicy gum-chewers' sheetlet, recently offered $50,000 in a cinema title contest. Certain aspects of the replies prompted them to demand an inquiry. Chief Assistant U. S District Attorney G. J. Mintzer inquired; unearthed a "puzzle trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzle Trust | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...after the Sacco-Vanzetti execution the Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' sheetlet published in Manhattan by Bernarr Macfadden, blazed on the newsstands with a huge headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...York Evening Graphic (Bernarr Macfadden's sheetlet) went so far as to suggest that President Coolidge appoint Captain Lindbergh ambassador-at-large to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Dewey, Lindbergh | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...infamous attack, a gross distortion," replied the Pittsburgh Courier, famed Negro weekly newspaper, as its correspondent started an anti-Graphic movement in Manhattan last week. Negroes object to having their hero and educator bandied about in the columns of a pornographic sheetlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Washington Flayed | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...there was one voice raised besides George Bernard Scrooge's. It was a superb opportunity for that professionally altruistic sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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