Not Tonight Dear

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Text on Button NOT TONIGHT DEAR...I'VE GOT A DEADLINE.
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Since the 1920s, writers have worked on publication deadlines: time limits by which issues have to be ready to be published. This button is likely from the gift shop of the Newseum, a Washington, DC-based museum that collected artifacts related to the history of journalism in the United States.

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Dead-line, n. (2023) Oxford English Dictionary. Accessed February 6, 2023 via https://www-oed-com.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu/view/Entry/47657?redire...

Streitmatter, Rodger (Winter 1997) Journalism History Goes Interactive at the Newseum. American journalism, 14(1). American Journalism Historians Association. Accessed February 6, 2023 via http://www.survivorlibrary.com/library/american_journalism_vol_14_1997.pdf

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