Business: Buy American

"Protect Your Home Markets from Cheap Alien Competition—Buy American! "

"Buy American Made Goods! Keep the Home Fires Burning!"

"Buy Uncle Sam!"

Hearstpapers. advertisements, handbills, letters, posters were spreading these slogans throughout the land last week. Organizations to boost the "Buy American" idea, adapted from the "Buy British" movement-(see p. 23), have been mushrooming for the last half year. When the Saturday Evening Post featured an exhortation by Samuel George Blythe to "Buy American" early last month, the movement assumed nation-wide proportions. And last week in its behalf William Randolph Hearst turned on...

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