Sirs:
For Man of the Year I nominate Leon Blum, Premier of France, who, although a professional Socialist, seems to have become the most active champion of democracy in Europe.
ARNOLD M. KLINE Cumberland, Md.
Sirs:
I nominate for the Man of the Year General Francisco Franco, who didn't hesitate to take arms against anarchy, atheism and communism.
S. CZETWERTYNSKI Cambridge, Mass.
Sirs:
Because during the past year he has brought the development of yellow journalism to an all-time high (with some short-lived exceptions) and because he has distinguished himself as America's No. 1 political acrobat, the League of Yellow Journalists places in nomination for Man of the Year none other than its honorary president, William Randolph Hearst.
WILLIAM A. KIRSTEIN President
The League of Yellow Journalists Harvard University Cambridge, Mass.
Sirs:
My nomination, the supreme spiritual ruler of the largest of the world's Christian groups, temporal ruler of but a tiny kingdom, Our Holy Father, Pius XI.
LAWRENCE C. KIEFFER Louisville, Ky.
Sirs:
For Man of the Year I modestly nominate myself. I am neither monarch, dictator, fuhrer, president or even a deposed king. Nor am I a movie star, postmaster, baseball player, maestro or champion corn husker. I am just an average American Business Man.
You may well ask on what I base my claim. The answer is simplicity itself.
From high quarters I am vaguely referred to as one of the "vested interests" though "divested" would more properly fit me.
It is I who am expected to pay the income tax, undivided profits tax, social security tax, the plus tax, the surplus tax and the nonplussed tax. The Robinson-Patman, Wheeler-Rayburn and What-Other-Senators-Have-You bills are all aimed at me.
I must raise a family, satisfy the labor unions, send my wife south for the winter, support the missionaries in Kamchatka and trade in my new car for a newer car each year.
You already have my photo in your files. It is that blurred composite picture showing a man trying to keep his ear to the ground, his eye to the future and his chin up all at the same time. It's a good trick but who can do it?
SIMON OTTINGER New York City
Sirs:
According to TIME, Nov. 16, "editors and statesmen of every capital in the world . . . responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election with an international ovation for the winner."
With Roosevelt for Man of the Year, I move the nominations be closed.
MARGARET E. LITTLE, R. N. Cambridge, Md.
Sirs:
Doubtless you have already made your choice as to the Man of the Year. It may be too late to change. Does it not clearly appear that the real Man of the Year is Stanley Baldwin Prime Minister of England and the Empire?
C. E. LEMMON
First Christian Church Columbia, Mo.
Sirs:
For Man of the Year let me renominate England s Edward. This enamored near middle-ager who flouts the public opinion of a nation of conservative sourpusses, and who to cap the climax says he will up and marry the girl is out and ahead of the field in the modern sport of casual iconoclasm. As such he deserves the regained prestige your title must bestow.