Word: orphans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huntington, W. Va. Herald-Dispatch solemnly stopped publishing the famed comic strip, "Little Orphan Annie," last week on the ground that "Annie has been made the vehicle for a studied, veiled, and alarmingly vindictive propaganda...
...diligent, honest and intelligent Editor James Clendenin of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, this sounded like arrant propaganda for "rugged individualism." A Progressive Republican, Editor Clendenin appeared to feel that Daddy Warbucks and Orphan Annie were oldline Republican Tories. Last week he published a front-page editorial...
...opinion of the Herald-Dispatch, the creator of the comic strip Little Orphan Annie has violated his sacred reader trust. ... In the latest instance, all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as 'crooks' and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and . . . the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable...
Editor Clendenin's criticism of the Annie strip seemed serious enough to the Chicago Tribune Syndicate to prompt it to wire Mr. Clendenin: "Orphan Annie artist ordered to stop editorializing and has already started new series. Feel sure you will like...
...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...