Photo, Print, Drawing Government's conflicting policies / Lute Pease.
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Title
- Government's conflicting policies / Lute Pease.
Summary
- Cartoon shows Uncle Sam (labeled "Government's Conflicting Policies") trying to separate two cocks (labeled "Wage Stabilization" and "Relaxed Price Controls") who are flying at each other. He holds on to the "wage" cock by it's tailfeathers, but the tailfeathers have torn loose from the "price" cock. At the end of World War II, there was pressure from various special interest groups to end the wage and price controls administered by the Office of Price Administration (OPA). Legislation passed in 1946 fatally weakened the agency's authority. Prices began to rise, and President Truman effectively abolished the agency in November. By the end of the year, prices has risen 13 percent and in the next two years by another 25 percent. Wages did not keep pace, resulting in a series of crippling strikes.
Names
- Pease, Lute, 1869-1963, artist
Created / Published
- [1946?]
Headings
- - Uncle Sam (Symbolic character)--1940-1950
- - Cockfighting--1940-1950
- - Wage-price policy--United States--1940-1950
Headings
- Drawings--American--1940-1950.
- Editorial cartoons--American--1940-1950.
Genre
- Editorial cartoons--American--1940-1950
- Drawings--American--1940-1950
Notes
- - Title from item.
- - Stamped on verso: Ed. Dept. Newark Evening News.
- - Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature (Library of Congress).
- - Unprocessed in WOOD/Pease
- - Sources: Ferrell, Harry S Truman, p. 229-30; Britannica book of the year, 1947, p. 618-19 ljr
Medium
- 1 drawing : crayon and ink brush, with opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing ; 38.5 x 42.8 cm (sheet)
Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id
- ppmsca 13598 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13598
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2007675332
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-13598 (digital file from original drawing)
Rights Advisory
- Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
Online Format
- image