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...have John T. McCutcheon draw a cartoon for the cover. Then we'll have an editorial page and put at the top that things of Decatur's: 'Our Country . . . may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!' That must be good stuff; we've used it for a long time. Then we'll get some stories-the kind we use in our Sunday editions-by George Barr McCutcheon, Albert Payson Terhune and Montague Glass. And we can have Mae Tince, who does our movies, contribute some of that...
Punch, London's politico-humorous weekly, prodded President Coolidge for offering Europe aid after the reparations tangle had been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...
Some while back, there appeared in Charles D. Gibson's Life a two-page cartoon which struck terror into the heart of the observer. It depicted a hideous reptile crawling across the map of the U. S. Its tail was securely planted in San Francisco. Part of its belly burdened New York. One lugubrious paw had Chicago in its clutch, another Los Angeles. An outstretched limb had already grabbed Albany, the giant fore paw overshadowed Washington. Of the face of the beast there could be no question. It was the heavy-hanging face of William Randolph Hearst...
...history may speak of The Pilgrims of 1924, which was in part history and in part a sort of dramatized cartoon. Therein Pilgrim Father Frank W. Stearns?with Elder Henry Cabot Lodge, Elder John W. Weeks and other official caricatures?adventured in the wilderness with blunderbusses. Sorely were the Pilgrims harassed by Big Chief Magnus Johnson with his Indians, who demanded of the Colonists: "Does anybody here speak Swedish...
John Corbin: "Just a folk play, a cartoon embodiment of the simplicity and the shrewdness, the family jars and the family affections, the commonplace intelligence and the wholesome character of the American people...