Word: cartoon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...readers of the New York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised...
...seeing Mr. Johnstone's cartoon, Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News telegraphed the World asking whether the cartoon was representative of New York "sentiment...
...World replied that it had made no canvass of public sentiment, that the cartoon expressed only the view of Mr. Johnstone, a onetime Chicagoan. Then the World asked the News to wire 1,000 words on the "public excitement in Chicago" over it. The News obliged with quotes...
From Robert E. Peacock, distinguished jeweler: "Ungentlemanly cartoon...
...World printed the words of the Chicagoans as news, and then laughed editorially: "Now it would be idle to deny that when we sent our telegram asking for the 1,000 words, we did so in a very facetious humor. We did not believe that the cartoon had actually caused any excitement. . . . For we have been in this business a long time. We were established May 10, 1883, and forty-five years have taught us a great many things; and as we visualize the scene in the Chicago Daily News office when our telegram was received, it went something like...