Wall Street Panics & Collapses: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #107
Using mostly cartoons shown over the course of our Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons run, plus a scattering of a few new ones, we have a brief review in pictures, of Wall Street Crashes & Panics, from mid-19th Century, up through Great Depression I. The upcoming election pits one candidate who is a millionaire [...]
Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
Winning It All to Lose It All, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 3: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.3
Our up-to-the-century coverage of Chicago’s 1912 Republican National Convention, continues with cartoons swiped from next month’s “future” — the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine! Above, cartoonist Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, late into the night, still playing their political game. Below, John Campbell Cory and Richard Keith Culver [...]
Broad Brush: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 14
We close up our coverage of the May 1912 fifth issue of Cartoons Magazine, with a hodge-podge of topics. Above, two cartoons concerning the Post Office using the Interstate Commerce Commission, to limit private carriers of packages, out of fear that such competition would drive the Post Office itself out of business. Much, much later, [...]
F.D.A.: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons # 88 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 18
The Food & Drug Administration is amongst several government agencies which extremists within the G.O.P. are calling to be eliminated. On March 15th, 1912, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley — who both headed & helped create the agency — resigned in the face of continuing opposition orchestrated by moneyed interests who would have preferred to continue [...]
Coal Strike: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 87 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 13
On April 1st, 1912, a strike against Coal Mine owners, began in the U.S., Britain, and other countries. Some of the British crew on the Titanic, were people looking for work elsewhere, while they were on strike against Coal Owners. The strike was the cover topic (above) of the April 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, March 1912, Part 7
Just a quickie Cartoons Magazine extract today, as the March 1912 issue had only one page concerning Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson, and I swiped the top half of that page for this past Tuesday’s posting. Both of the above cartoons focus on a comment Wilson made concerning U.S. history, that was unappreciated at the time [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 79: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 4
Cartoons Magazine‘s centennial year, continues with further extracts from the February 1912 issue. As I doubt any issue does not contain at least a few cartoons involving monopolies, corporate corruption, and/or Wall street stock or bank dirty dealings, you can anticipate that once a month, the Cartoons Magazine celebration, will cross paths with our ongoing, [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 3
We continue our coverage of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with another set of extracts from the February 1912 second issue. Last month — i.e., January 1912 — saw pages of cartoons about not-yet-declared Presidential candidate T. Roosevelt, but only a single cartoon focused on eventual winner, Woodrow Wilson. A month later, Wilson received the four above [...]
Roosevelt is a Red!
Does the below look familiar? Back in the days of Great Depression I, a constant refrain from the Republican Party was that President Franklin Roosevelt was a communist or a socialist, and that the United States had become a communist dictatorship, because Democrats were in power. The below left cartoon by Rollin Kirby, is from the mid-term elections [...]
