As political cartoonist for Julius David Stern's rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius ("Jerry") Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some 328,222 readers. Last week one Doyle drawing particularly tickled none other than Eugene (Liberty League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that...
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