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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks JL and Fred. Congratulations to Barry Popik on his excellent discovery.

Barry clipped the citation on September 16, 2019.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-the-buck-stops-her/36017495/

As mentioned by Fred, the citation appears in "The New Yale Book of
Quotations" (2021).

In addition, JL mentioned the citation previously on January 16, 2023.
https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2023-January/163089.html

The Quote Investigator article has been updated, at last. Changes
should be visible within  24 hours. Barry Popik, Jonathan Lighter, and
Fred Shapiro are acknowledged.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/07/buck-stops/

Garson

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:56 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> The 1929 citation is included in the New Yale Book of Quotations, which credits Barry Popik for discovering it.
>
> Fred Shapiro
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Friday, June 7, 2024 1:43 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Does "The buck stops here'' stop here?
>
> Twenty years ago on another thread I wrote:
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> "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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