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Whoever wrote this Japanese caption for the cartoon did not do a good job of it, for the text actually says: "For Our Birthday present, find out the name of the country that bombed Japan." Which makes it anything but a piece of effective propaganda, and sounds ridiculous, if I may say so, because every Japanese must know which country bombed Japan...
...press rushed to the fore the gaunt, sourpuss, frock-coated figure of Old Man Prohibition. One cartoon showed him with a dishonorable discharge (1933) in his pocket, squatting under an umbrella in the halls of Congress; the heading said: "Tenting on the old Camp Ground!" (see cut, p. 23). He pointedly reminded Americans of their "noble experiment." To jar further the memories of the forgetful, the New York World-Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed...
...Poon, Harvard's funny magazine is getting funnier and funnier, for its cartoon of the month showed the Ibis, 'Poonsters' idol, being shot out of the sky by one of the magazine's many hot shots...
Died. Dr. James M. Doran, 57, onetime U.S. Commissioner of Prohibition (1927-30); in Washington. Thin, bespectacled, with puckish ears, he faintly resembled the cartoon personifications of Prohibition. His wife, Roxana, a W.C.T.U. member, attracted attention in 1930 with a recipe book of "Prohibition Punches," whose contributors numbered the wives of many high Washingtonians. One of Mrs. Doran's offerings was a mint julep without liquor. With the end of Prohibition, Doran became head of the Distilled Spirits Institute, resigned...
That day, in the page-one space usually occupied by its cartoon, the Tribune displayed under the caption "The Citadel" a picture of Tribune Tower with the U.S. flag waving above...