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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.
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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.
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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.
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JM-026: At 70% naval efficiency in the United States
Summary
Editorial cartoon depicting a man representing Congress in front of a blackboard showing the naval efficiency of Britain, Japan, and the United States. Britain and Japan both have 100% efficiency, but the man crosses out the 100% mark by the United States and replaces it with 70%, remarking on how this will please voters and reduce costs. Uncle Sam and Hughes watch from the window and express shock.
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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.
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JM-084: Brittania boasts about subsidizing merchant marine, while Uncle Sam stands by unused merchant marine
Summary
Editorial cartoon depicting figure representing Britannia standing on a boat with fleet of British ships behind him. He tells Uncle Sam, who is standing on non-moving ships decorated with cobwebs, that he subsidizes his merchant marine. Uncle Sam replies that he does not.
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JM-238: World Court Tribunal. 238
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Editorial cartoon depicting Uncle Sam at the World Court Tribunal.
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JM-020: "Which do you love best?"
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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.
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JM-089: Cartoons of the day
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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.
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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.
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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.
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JM-278: Sure he can!
Summary
Editorial cartoon depicting Hoover asking Uncle Sam if he can lick unemployment hardships.
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JM-275: The rich farm and the spreading thistles
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Uncle Sam complacent as "dishonesty" grows in "U.S." fields
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JM-309: Uncle Sam suggests a national referendum
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Uncle Sam proud of freedoms, suggests national referendums.
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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.
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JM-289: Dancing to the spring song
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Editorial cartoon depicting men representing nations dancing around "war" organ grinder. The League of Nations watches from a window.
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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.