"SOUL DESTROYER": CARTOONIST'S ATTACK ON MR ROOSEVELT
(Received 14, 10.30 a.m.) NEW .YORK, July 13. A sensationt.', was caused by a two-page advertisement in the New York Sun consisting of a 20,000word bitter attack on President Roosevelt by the noted cartoonist Percy Crisby, in which he takes exception to being listed as a taxevader in the receat Federal income investigatipns. He charges Mj* Roosevelt with a desire to destroy the capitalist system and declares: "With every vote given for Roosevelt, a human soul was surrenderea." The artidle refers to Mr Roosevelt 's university training in "the - orchid atmosphere of Harvardr' and declares that Mr Roosevelt is standing hy without protest when priVate property is destroyed hy agitators. '
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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