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JOHN TINNEY McCUTCHEON. Group of 4 political cartoons. Pen and ink, each published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, signed "McCutcheon" lower right corner, and mounted on black card.
John T. McCutcheon was known as the "Dean of American Cartoonists" and won the Pulitzer Prize for his political cartoons in 1931. Well Intrenched. 430x355 mm; 17x13 3/4 inches. 1928. Commentary on the war between organized crime with political connections and the police force divided by a barbed wire fence of legal delays, friendly judges, cash, crooked lawyers, low grade juries, money, political influence, and organization votes The "'49er" and the '29er." 430x340 mm; 16 3/4x13 1/2 inches. August 21, 1931. The ghost of an old Forty-niner confronts a baffled businessman trying to recover from the Crash of 1929 Who Paid for the Atomic Bomb. 370x345 mm; 14x13 3/4 inches. November 18, 1945 When the Battleship Gets Scared of the Atomic Bomb. 410x345 mm; 17x13 1/2 inches. January 13, 1946. Two late attacks on the enormous cost of the American development of the Atomic Bomb.
