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...scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist for Harper's Weekly in the 70s, who added whiskers, put stars on the vest. Except for minor embellishments, Uncle Sam thereafter became a standardized character of the Press...
...confused with the late Cartoonist Clare A. Briggs...
...Cartoonist Strube of the Daily Express acknowledged the epidemic with a drawing (see cut) in which all Britain's political leaders were disguised as Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
Sounding much like his own Skippy, embattled against the World, Cartoonist Percy Leo Crosby returned via Manhattan to his farm at McLean, Va. in deep disgruntlement at the Press and Powers of Chicago. He had made good on his promise to enter the territory of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone "without gun permit or bodyguard" (TIME, March 2). Sent by a Manhattan organization called the Anti-Gang Rule League he had addressed a Chicago body called the Universal Fellowship Foundation, which sings songs between its dinner courses, including a non-flag-waving version of "The Star Spangled Banner." In a sensational...
...Cartoonist Crosby had expected a radio-broadcast of his remarks. He got none. He had expected big stories in the Chicago newspapers. The Press ignored him. He had at least expected the Manhattan Press to play him up. It did not. More than ever he suspected "some sinister influence...