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Title: JM-279: The politicians idea of relieving the distress of unemployment and the burden of over taxation
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam trying to think of a way to give the unemployed jobs. Politician suggests to Uncle Sam that unemployed collect new taxes.

Title: JM-038: Hindered progress when horses are different houses
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the president and Uncle Sam appearing happy when both horses pulling their carriage along are Republican, signifying a Republican Senate and House. When the Senate is a Democrat horse, the carriage is at a standstill and both the president and Uncle Sam both have annoyed, unhappy expressions on their faces.

Title: JM-043: Wilson expanding the Monroe Doctrine while Uncle Sam worries about America
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting President Wilson standing on a globe and acting as a policeman of the world. Uncle Sam grabs his arm and says, "America first!" All over the globe, signs depict new orders and laws based on Wilson's expansion of the Monroe Doctrine. Wilson is credited with expanding the Doctrine to allow for "Missionary Diplomacy" in locations such as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Title: JM-296: Problem of conduct
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three American businessmen profiting from WWI. In the next panel, they turn away from promise of wealth and say "Never again" since the costs to nation not worth it.

Title: JM-287: Uncle Sam will soon be alone with his recovery diet and digestion
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam bloated by huge output of legislation by 73rd Congress.

Title: JM-092: Three scenes of government and individual greed
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three sets of panels, with each set containing an individual cartoon. In the first set, Uncle Sam is shown letting the U.S. Natural Resources flow freely from a pipe in the first panel, and then barely letting any resources come through in the second. In the second set, a group of men and women call a man representing "Capital" in a "Special privilege" car greedy; in the next panel, businessmen call a worker demanding more pay greedy and wonder when times will get back to "normal." In the third set of panels, a man running for Congress promises to have a rigid economy, but behind closed doors he expresses doubts about his ability to support a budget system.

Title: JM-239: Filipino independence. 239
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a Filipino man arguing for independence from the U. S., who counters by asking if the Philippines will give independence to the Moro people.

Title: JM-238: World Court Tribunal. 238
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam at the World Court Tribunal.

Title: JM-020: "Which do you love best?"
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting a pollster bearing a resemblance to Uncle Sam asking Ohio which of her favorite sons she loves best. A group of other people watch from the other side of a fence.

Title: JM-089: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three panels, each one containing a different cartoon. In the first panel, General Crowder directs men over draft age into either a door marked "U.S. Fighters" or "Useful work." In the second panel, men toss hands and smile at sign with "Commander Pellegrini's raid in the Austrian naval base" displayed. In the last panel, a man representing the U.S. remarks on how the 10,000 tons of ships built each day in the U.S. will beat the U-boats.

Title: JM-300: In time we may get used to these crises
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam reading about crises occurring in Ethiopia, Spain, etc. He vows non-involvement.

Title: JM-267: Uncle Sam asks the country questions about defense
Summary: Uncle Sam is shown asking a crowd representing the American people three questions about opposition to war, if the country ought to defend itself, and if it should be prepared to defend itself. The crowd stands in support of the first two questions, but a small group sits down when he asks the third.

Title: JM-288: Cartoons of the day
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three panels containing different cartoons. In the first panel, Cardinal Mundelein is shown; in the second panel, a man beams at a newspaper claiming economic recovery; in the third panel, DuPont explosives manufacturers supports munitions control.

Title: JM-278: Sure he can!
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting Hoover asking Uncle Sam if he can lick unemployment hardships.

Title: JM-275: The rich farm and the spreading thistles
Summary: Uncle Sam complacent as "dishonesty" grows in "U.S." fields

Title: JM-309: Uncle Sam suggests a national referendum
Summary: Uncle Sam proud of freedoms, suggests national referendums.

Title: JM-302: A three-sided fight in Washington this summer
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting the Isolationist Congress and pro-League of Nations White House argue.

Title: JM-078: Three scenes of Uncle Sam excluding immigrants
Summary: Editorial cartoon depicting three scenes in three different panels. In the top panel, Uncle Sam stands in a garden of Americanism surrounded by crows labeled "Unassimilable Asiatic Immigration" and "Undesirable European Immigration." In the middle panel, Uncle Sam is putting up two signs along the coast: "Exclusion of Chinese" and "Exclusion of Japanese Immigrants" while a figure representing Japan, a country who also has exclusion signs for China and Korea, watches. In the third panel, the same figure from Japan gestures with an angry face and Japanese Emigrants behind him, while Uncle Sam proudly shows off a sign welcoming only particular groups of Japanese people: tourists, students, scientists, etc.