Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cartoonists often represent Labor as a hulking, slightly stupid man with great biceps and an ominous sledgehammer in his hand. Viewing the cartoon, one gets the idea that it would be incautious to tread on the man's big toes, extremely imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell...
...White House Acting Secretary of State Castle and Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Had they needed a picture of the U. S. position to help them arrive at their decision, they could have done no better than to send out for a copy of London Punch, whose main cartoon often has all the authority and conciseness of a leader in the august London Times. Punch had depicted a kindly President Hoover carrying nice old Dame Europa in his arms across the waters of world-wide Depression (see cut). Beneath the cartoon were these lines...
Intoxicated by his own aptitude at phrase-coining, Mr. Churchill declared that Britain is heading straight for a "Government of the Dole-drawers, by the Dole-drawers and for the Dole-drawers." Above these Churchillisms the Daily Mail printed a cartoon showing the benches of the House of Commons prophetically occupied by vacant-eyed bums (Dole-drawers). Towering above them but ignored, loomed the futile ghost of Abraham Lincoln...
Divorced. Lois Long ("Lipstick" of the New Yorker); from Curtis Arnoux Peters (Cartoonist Peter Arno); in a cross-complaint to the suit her husband filed last month (TIME, May 25); in Reno. Charge: cruelty. Said Cartoonist Arno: "Well, I won't cartoon this incident. . . , That Vanderbilt thing is closed as far as I am concerned...
...after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...