Word: cartoonable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime New Deal propaganda was a recent New Yorker cartoon which pictured a plump, baldish economic royalist murmuring to a reluctant, expensive young woman: "And if Roosevelt is not reelected, perhaps even a villa in Newport, my dearest sweet...
Hitherto the fatherly New York Times has been chary about reporting Mrs. Simpson but last week she graduated to full Times coverage of her movements. These were snipped in Britain last week from the current issue of TIME, prompting the New York World-Telegram to cartoon and say: "The story was not scandalous. The censorship must have proceeded from some officious and oversensitive minor official while His Majesty was gone, for there was nothing in the story to offend the King...
...that the cotton-growing South is excited about the Rust cotton-picker. The Memphis Press-Scimitar and a few other newspaoers were enthusiastic. Most Southern papers, however, declared in effect that even if the picker were good they would not like it. The Memphis Commercial-Appeal printed a cartoon of a pop-eyed old darky trailing an empty cotton-sack and exclaiming: "Ef'n it doose mah wuk-whose wuk I gwine do?" The Jackson, Miss. Daily News, unimpressed by the fact that the Rust brothers are conscientious Socialists and have promised to cushion the impact of the machine...
...when the staid Globe-Democrat decided to have a fling at big-time circulation promotion. Scheme adopted was one invented and successfully used by the rowdy New York Post and sold for $26,167 through its Publishers' Service Co. to the provincial paper. Known as the "Famous Names" cartoon contest, the circulation-catcher presented 84 drawings, one each day, by Cartoonist Peter Arno and a daily list from which readers were to guess the correct picture title. Like most such schemes, "Famous Names" was easy at first, soon grew harder & harder. Ten cents was required of contestants for each...
...hostage!" In Madrid hospitals, where most of the trained nurses have always been Sisters of Mercy, these nuns were ejected last week by untrained radical nurses despite the protests of Madrid doctors who warned that the death rate among the wounded was already abnormally high. Big as two cartoon Capitalists, Madrid's huge-paunched Pedro Rico Lopez ("The Fattest Mayor in Europe") remained an amazing demon of dynamic work, waddling furiously about as he bellowed orders, made successful efforts to keep food supplies moving into the capital...