Samuel George Blythe

Samuel George Blythe (1868-1947) was an American writer and newspaperman.[1] In 1933 during the Great Depression he urged people to Buy American in the Saturday Evening Post.[2]

References

  1. ^ Shippey, Lee (March 27, 1932). "Samuel George Blythe". Los Angeles Times. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/379883411.html?dids=379883411:379883411&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+27%2C+1932&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=SIDE.%27+L-A&pqatl=google. Retrieved 2009-08-18. "Samuel George Blythe is the foremost typical newspaper man of the era now beginning to pass. He carried papers as a small boy. He worked at the case in his fathers print shop when he had to stand..." 
  2. ^ "Buy American". Time magazine. January 9, 1933. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,753590,00.html. Retrieved 2009-08-18. "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 his big publicity machine."