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...foster patriotism, and to serve the country in peace as well as in war, the American Legion stages annually the World's Greatest Organized Drunk. There pot-bellied morons, stinking drunk, and once again briefly freed from the ties of home, dirty up the town which has been lucky enough to secure their services, pinch and heckle the female passers-by, and in general demonstrate to the world the manifold advantages of the democracy for which it was, unfortunately, not made safe...
...that the nation will not vote a party out of office when it feels that the times are prosperous and believes they will remain so. It was by that rule that Calvin Coolidge shaped his campaign in 1924, that Herbert Hoover made "permanent prosperity" with a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage the major theme of his campaign in 1928. Last week it became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which at bottom was exactly the same as the Hoover campaign of 1928. In the White House, President Roosevelt might appeal...
Last good campaign for cartoonists was that of 1928. Times were good, popular issues were sharp, simple, easily pictured-the Brown Derby, the Noble Experiment, Two Cars in Every Garage & a Chicken in Every Pot. By 1932 Depression had cast the land in gloom and cartoonists were forced to wrestle with such huge intangibles as the Gold Standard, War Debts, Unemployment, a Change...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered...
...first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man might become a mere figurehead. Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining...