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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Herriman Saturday


Saturday, September 12 1908 -- Another cartoon on the "Solid Three", Herriman's cartoons continue blazing against this scandal.

County commissioners Patterson, Eldridge and Wilson, dubbed the "Solid Three", put together a bond issue for the county and sold it off, probably to favored friends, at a high interest rate. They did this without proper public meetings and without going through the normal channels to determine a fair interest rate. On discovering this breach of the public trust, Angelenos were, not too surprisingly, up in arms.
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2 comments:

  1. Toko Library1/22/2015 4:25 PM

    Hi
    I am wondering if this is an homage to Tenniels famous cartoon "dropping the pilot"" from Punch in the 1890's. Or am I just seeing connections where there aren't any
    Greig Daniels

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  2. Allan Holtz1/22/2015 5:56 PM

    Wow, great catch Greig. I was not familiar with that Tenniel cartoon. Apparently more famous in Germany than to us stateside.

    For anyone interested here's the wiki page:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropping_the_Pilot

    --Allan

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