Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent the Digest a telegram which consisted of the word HA! repeated 50 times. The radical New Masses showed a cartoon cop barking into a microphone: "Pick up a nut at the Literary Digest office. He keeps trying to buy the joint for two bits ." Even the august New York Times hurled a smug thunderbolt: "Among the rewards or consolations of this Presidential election, most citizens will have already made up a 'little list' of political nuisances of which they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show...
...last word in something or other was provided by Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling in a nationally syndicated cartoon titled "Halloween...
...notable contribution to political journalism. Early last summer he announced that, for the remainder of the campaign, the News would daily donate the full page opposite the editorial page to the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Each camp could present whatever it liked in the way of argument, invective, cartoon; the News would print their contributions side by side without altering so much as a word...
...page editorial shouting that "The bosses of Landon . . . know Landon's whole attempt to fool the American masses is a flop"; a headline, PRO-HITLER STAFF AT HEADQUARTERS OF REPUBLICANS; a column by the New Deal's best syndicated friend, Jay Franklin, predicting a Roosevelt landslide; a cartoon depicting Alf Landon being blindfolded by Samuel Insull...
...when they reached England last week. For no clear reason this suppression did not operate against U. S. newspapers which arrived screaming the same facts under banner headlines and were sold last week on the bookstalls of famed W. H. Smith & Sons. Apt was a Chicago Tribune front page cartoon by John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story...