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Another reversal this year was the cartoon prize. The selecting committee chose "Women Taken in Bootlegging" by Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The board decided on "Tammany" by Rollin Kirby of the New York World...
...Rollin Kirby,New York World (Pulitzer paper) drew the best cartoon ("Tammany!"-showing famed Republicans, some in prison stripes, holding up their hands in horror-reproduced in TIME, Oct. 15)-$500 cash. It was Cartoonist Kirby's third Pulitzer prize...
Outstanding in the cartoon history of the 1928 campaign have been: For the Republicans, Cartoonist Thomas Edwards Powers of the Hearst newspapers; for the Democrats, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World. John Tinney McCutcheon's work on the Chicago Tribune (Republican) has been, except for his "Tammany Farmers" series,* quiet and conventional. The Tribune has to be wet in Chicago and no organ in the city that gave William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson to the G. O. P. can afford to go very strongly on the Tammany-corruption theme. The "Tammany Farmers" series has stressed urban ignorance...
Notable on the Democratic side there are, besides Rollin Kirby, Cartoonists Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun and Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Eagle. But the Duffy vein is too broad to rank high and the Harding execution has been better than the Harding ideas...
...Rollin Kirby, ace of Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby...