Public men before and after Grover Cleveland have used the pages of nationally circulated magazines as an effective means of broadcasting their political ideas
The first issue of The Country Gentleman, January 6, 1853, carried a picture of George Washington in its vignette as the very type of the country gentleman
The first Time cover, in black and white, pictured Uncle Joe Cannon, Speaker of the House, who was retiring at the age of eighty-six after serving twenty-three terms in Congress
Rea Irvin's disdainful dandy appeared on the cover of the first New Yorker, February 21, 1925. "Eustace Tilley" reappears on the cover of each of its anniversary issues
Early advertisements often were simply notices. Runaway ap- prentices and a job-hunting teacher occupied paid space in The Saturday Evening Post, September 6, 1834
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Publication Information: Book Title: Magazines in the United States: Their Social and Economic Influence. Contributors: James Playsted Wood - author. Publisher: Ronald Press. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1949. Page Number: x.
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