Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion...
Cartoonist Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle made a sketch of the President-elect, right hand raised in greeting, hat held in left hand, and had it reproduced nine times, in nine panels of a strip cartoon entitled: "Anticipating the News Cameras-Pres.-Elect Hoover in Panama, in Colombia, in Chile, in Peru...
...picture receiving sets, now on sale in London, have a small radio panel and a large synchronized clockwork cylinder on which the portrait or cartoon appears in an elapsed receiving time of about four minutes...
Regularly during the campaign, The Fellowship Forum devoted eight out of its ten pages to violent, blatant and inaccurate attacks on Al Smith, the Pope and rum -by story, headline, editorial, cartoon and readers' forum. The doings and speeches of Mrs. Willebrandt, Rev. John Roach Straton, Senator Heflin and many a minor bigot were faithfully reported. The technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades...
...elephant in the Powers cartoon was labeled "Hughes of G. 0. P." Charles Evans Hughes was Hooverism's spokes-man to deal with the Smith retort...