Cigarets Sirs:
. . . With the cigaret and pipe apparently as much a part of wearing apparel as shirts and cravats, why are no photographs ever published showing a President in the act of smoking? . . .
If the President himself considers that it is neither bad taste nor beneath the dignity of his office to use tobacco, surely he would not object to the consistency of being seen in the act of using it. ...
A. B. MADISON
Fowler, Kan.
Dearth of smoking pictures is due merely to failure of cameramen to click. Only smoking-picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the files of Manhattan agencies is here shown (see cut). It was taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.—ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy my curiosity. Hearst's "Washington Chatter'' first First Lady in U. S. history to do so First female resident in the White House to smoke: "Princess" Alice Roosevelt (at first surreptitiously, later in public). First First Lady to smoke: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. But she cares little for tobacco, uses it to put her guests at ease.—ED. Man of the Year Sirs: For the Man of the Year I nominate our Chief Justice, Charles Evans Hughes.
As far as I am able to learn he has made a perfect record. He has upheld the dignity of the judicial branch of the country in the most hectic year in American politics. He has not blurted. Sagaciously he has made no appearance to the public outside the administering of oath of office to President Roosevelt, which was his duty. And finally he has in my opinion cooperated with the present administration by weighing the element of time against its perpetual offspring —change. C. H. McWlLLIAMS Wilmington. Ohio Sirs:
I have religiously read the perfect newsmagazine since the memorable presidential campaign of the Brown Derby whom you caused me to love, and have been for two seasons a usually rapt and rarely disappointed listener-in on the "March of TIME" which IS the best of informative radio broadcasts.
For Man of the Year I fervidly nominate one justly compared with Galileo. All praise to the Happy Warrior, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and other good men and strong. But History, if not TIME, will record as Man of the Year, George Frederick Warren (TIME, Nov. 27).
JOHN P. CAMP
Gainesville, Fla.
Sirs:
I nominate as the Man of the Year (for that matter of the "century") Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit, Mich.
His direct and straightforward attacks against "legal(?) czars" of the past, for the betterment of the millions in the U. S. A. and abroad, puts into total eclipse such former idols as our ex-Governor. The history of this era, when written, will record the name of Rev. Chas. E. Coughlin in bold relief.
THOS. MEADOWCROFT
New York City
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