Strange case of the purloined letter CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 343...

CALL NUMBER:CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 343 (A size) <P&P>[P&P]

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SUMMARY:Cartoon shows Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Attorney General Francis Biddle, former Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, and presidential assistant Harry Hopkins dressed like Sherlock Holmes in deer stalker hats, examining footprints in the snow that are headed toward the White House and then veer off to the Interior Department. Ickes says, "Quick, Watson, the needle! Something''s gone awry." In a minor political scandal in the winter of 1943-44, C. Nelson Sparks reported in a book attacking Willkie that Hopkins had written a letter implying the support of the Roosevelt Administration for another Willkie presidential candidacy in 1944. Hopkins denied writing the letter, and Senator William Langer charged that it had actually been written at the instigation of Ickes, a long-time Hopkins foe. Ickes denied his involvement and testified before a grand jury. Berryman has fun here invoking several classic mystery stories. Sherlock Holmes relieved his tensions by injecting cocaine and the needle quote is the famous last line from the 1939 film, The Hound of the Baskervilles with Basil Rathbone. The caption alludes to Edgar Allan Poe''s story The Purloined Letter.

MEDIUM:1 drawing.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:1944 Jan. 20.

CREATOR:

Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist.

NOTES:

Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

(DLC/PP-1945:R2.325)

mm / 860122; ljr / 021121.

Sources: New York times, Jan. 18, 1944, p. 15; Jan. 19, p. 17, Jan. 20, p. 1; Jan. 21, p. 12; Jan. 25, p. 12; Bunson, Encyclopedia Sherlockiana, p. 52 -- ljr

SUBJECTS:

Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968.
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Purloined letter.
United States. Dept. of the Interior--1940-1950.
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)--1940-1950.
Governmental investigations--United States--1940-1950.

FORMAT:

Editorial cartoons American.
Drawings.

PART OF:Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:(digital file from intermediary roll film copy) acd 2a06045

CONTROL #:acd1996000662/PP

Pop Art Machine Code: acd-2a06000-2a06000-2a06045


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