Posted on 12/10/2018 6:35:01 AM PST by sodpoodle
Every year, TIME Magazine announces who it will name person of the year, the individual who done the most to influence global events "for better or for worse."
But the TIME person of the year accolade actually started by accident.
The final week of 1927 had been a series of slow news days, and editors were struggling to find someone to lead their Person of the Week feature.
According to a letter to readers that appeared in the 1944 edition, “no one had done anything newsworthy enough to put his picture on TIME’s cover, so somebody suggested we stop looking for a Man of the Week and pick a Man of the Year.
“This was an easy choice: Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had soloed the Atlantic in only 33 hours and 39 minutes, was the hero of 1927.”
(Excerpt) Read more at standard.co.uk ...
I'll keep posting the 'possibles'.
What’s ‘Time’?
Mueller of course!
Mueller no doubt.
beat me by a minute.
George H W Bush is my guess.
What is “BTS”?
Someone who damaged Trump or some democrat running for President in 2020...
Blessing The Swamp?
If it’s not trump, they should leave it blank.
Every potential POTY candidate is such because they work against Trump.
#metoo
Clearly it will be Alexandria Occasionally Coherent, lead dog for all of the new Socialists who will be infesting Nancy’s house starting next month.
https://www.iheart.com/content/2018-12-09-is-bts-going-to-win-times-person-of-the-year/
some singing group!
Christine Blasey Ford.
You are correct.
A dead Republican or a live Democrat.
Herr Mueller, head of das Gestapo, as he prepares to unload on Trump right after the first of the year, paving the way for impeachment proceedings.
PERSON of Year.
Group is not A person A GROUP iS 2 or more.
Not saying You are wrong but “they” are.
Probably those poor, desperate innocents trying to cross over our southern border. /s
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