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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Here are the next few. Again, no chronological order. The first is probably from 1941 when Germany and Turkey signed a friendship and trade treaty. An interesting side note from this treaty was a deal for Turkey to sell Germany a steady supply of chromium. This resulted in the US and GB...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    As I noted over in The Golden Age, I've been have scanner issues. These are now hopefully corrected. These next three reference some of the strategic conferences that took place in order to organize an alliance to fight the Axis. One technique often used in these cartoons is to use a...
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Now that I have, (hopefully!), resolved my scanner's problems, here a couple of the wartime cartoons referencing domestic issues. The first is in regards to Operation Pastourious. This was the German plan to land 4-man teams of saboteurs by U-boat in the US. Their goal was to blow up...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'll raise you, "Peepin' through the knothole in grandpa's wooden leg..." - B. Bunny
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Consider the intimate feeling for and knowledge of a place where one's "dead are in the churchyard - thirty generations laid". And then to have to up and leave for pastures unknown.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    This lot are all over the place regarding time but illustrate the increasing number of problems besetting Schikelgruber. Also note the continued depiction of Hitler as a paperhanger. A reference to his failure to gain admittance to the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1907-08.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    And some more Mussolini.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    The next two concern Sub-Saharan Africa. Although it was not one of the main theaters of conflict during the war, combat and covert activities did occur there. One the following is from before the war and concerns Nazi efforts to gain support from native inhabitants of former German colonies...
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    Zealotry

    Another one of these groups in the Era was 'The Perfect Christian Divine Way' as espoused by William Riker. His group founded and incorporated a town called Holy City in 1926 at the summit on the road between San Jose and Santa Cruz. There they ran a restaurant, dance hall, peep show, zoo...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Although Russia has dominated the cartoons of late, here's some commentary of the war in North Africa.
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Here are a series that comment on Lend-Lease, loss of neutral US ships in the Battle of the Atlantic, and some of the US response.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Here are four featuring Il Duce. Vainglorious and pompous, Mussolini was an easy mark for cartoonist to parody. Herblock, however, saw the underlying malice.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I think we've all overlooked the incredible power of the phrase, "Tropical Oomph". Just consider how useful the phrase could be as an answer to all sorts of questions. For example, "What is the cure for pink toothbrush bristles?" "Tropical Oomph!" "Where did you get that hat?" "Tropical...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Some more concerning the Russian Front. Including one about after the war featuring a paper-hanger:
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    A large number of the cartoons specifically deal with the war in Russia. "Living Room" is a direct, (but incorrect), translation of "Lebensraum". This meant space to expand. Specifically the 'removal' of the peoples of Russia and its territories so the land could be colonized by Germans...
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Here are a few from before the war. Tony Galento was a heavyweight boxer of whom Max Baer said: "He smelled of rotten tuna and a tub of old liquor being sweated out".
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Fading Fast wrote: "Joe, if Sally says she wants to go to the musical "Road To Singapore" say yes - it's a fun enough movie plus Dorothy Lamour." All you need to add is Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake to have "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peek-a-boo Bang."
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've recently discovered the series, Lovejoy, on Acorn. Ian McShane plays a rogue of an antique dealer along with a regular cast of supporters and antagonists. Begun in the mid-'80s and finished in the early '90s, it hits the spot right now as series of humourous capers flicks. The books I...
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    Your TOP Bogart movie..?

    The owner of the apartment in the Malloch Building on Telegraph Hill that was used as Bacall's in the movie keeps a life-size, black&white, cardboard cut-out of Bogart in the window. You can see it here as well as other then-and-now photos of places used in the movie.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    These three all use baseball as theme. Probably more understood then than now.

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