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Last good campaign for cartoonists was that of 1928. Times were good, popular issues were sharp, simple, easily pictured-the Brown Derby, the Noble Experiment, Two Cars in Every Garage & a Chicken in Every Pot. By 1932 Depression had cast the land in gloom and cartoonists were forced to wrestle with such huge intangibles as the Gold Standard, War Debts, Unemployment, a Change...
...Largo Caballero was appointed "Supreme Chief of the Military Forces of Spain" and Julio Alvarez del Vayo "General Commissioner of War," in a two-way attempt to exercise political control over the Red Militia. As the White offensive rolled nearer & nearer to the capital, Madrid became a city of gloom and darkness. Gas for cooking and heating had been cut off. Places of entertainment closed early. To stir up the inhabitants' flagging spirits notices were pinned up in the streets, "Men of Madrid ! Will you allow your women to be raped by Moors !" The women themselves were similarly exhorted...
...reported to contain $200 to $600 of gold per ton. Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd., had bought the claims and was about to start drilling while dozens of mining engineers, hundreds of prospectors were stalking Arden's once placid streets. Again Depression, which steeps most men in gloom and poverty, was demonstrating its power of bringing hope and sometimes wealth to those who tie their fortunes to gold...
...President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency, a lack of hope for the future and a general atmosphere of gloom. But I had a hunch, and it was the right one, that when I got out here I would find that you people had your chins up. ... I get a picture which reassures me as to the future of the so-called Great Plains drought area-reassurances of the fact that...
Last week the British League of Nations Union deserted even by Nobel Peace Knight Sir Austen Chamberlain, was cutting its staff, slashing wages, rapidly folding up in a state of gloom...