[Ads-l] Does "The buck stops here'' stop here?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Twenty years ago on another thread I wrote:

"I'm sticking to my story that I saw a reference to 'The Buck Stops Here'
on a little desk plaque in a story published during the '30s in _Our Army_
magazine."

While not quite vindication, the following makes my statement nugatory:

1929  _Lincoln [Neb.] Evening Journal_  (Oct. 2)  13 (Newspapers.com): It's
about the second lieutenant in the war department whose desk was back in
the corner among the boxes and the barrels....Above this desk the second
looey had placed a card which read: "The buck stops here"...and he didn't
mean buck private.

JL
-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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