Word: joes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Press section of TIME, July 18 the recent portrayal of President Roosevelt in the Joe Palooka comic strip is suspected of being the first comic .strip portrayal of an incumbent President...
...proved he was no flash in the pan by continuing his winning streak until he had nine victories in a row, was by last week accustomed to the spotlight. With more poise than many a seasoned oldtimer, he stood up to American League sluggers like Jimmy Foxx, Charley Gehringer, Joe Di Maggio, Joe Cronin, Bill Dickey, faced only ten batters, required only 31 pitches, allowed only one hit (single). With Pitcher Bill Lee of the Cubs, the National Leaguers, who scored a run in the very first inning, continued to humble the highly favored Americans, who had beaten them every...
...During that time McKechnie developed six of the 15 other managers now functioning in the major leagues: Charley Grimm, Pie Traynor, Joe Cronin, Frank Frisch, Jim Wilson, Burleigh Grimes...
Last week Joe Palooka, dumb but lovable comic-strip prize fighter, was wandering across the sands of an African desert to an uncertain fate. In a moment of despair he had joined the French Foreign Legion. Now he thinks he is being sought by the Legion as a deserter. Little does he know what his followers in almost 500 newspapers know: that fortnight ago the President of France pardoned him after receiving a request from President Roosevelt...
When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...