"We figured it was employing someone who might otherwise be starving."

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"We figured it was employing someone who might otherwise be starving."

Artist Alan Dunn (American, 1900 - 1974)

Date1939

ClassificationsCartoon

Mediumcrayon

DimensionsObject: 15 × 14 in. (38.1 × 35.6 cm) Sheet: 15 × 14 in. (38.1 × 35.6 cm)

Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest

Object number1979.0676A

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"We figured it was employing someone who might otherwise be starving."

"We figured it was employing someone who might otherwise be starving."

Alan Dunn

1939

"We might have dinner together sometime - huh, Louise?"

"We might have dinner together sometime - huh, Louise?"

Alan Dunn

1930

"While we're at it, we might as well put up a couple more for Japan and Outer Mongolia just in case."

"While we're at it, we might as well put up a couple more for Japan and Outer Mongolia just in case."

Alan Dunn

1956

"You have to relax, Mother. Otherwise, he can't do it so well."

"You have to relax, Mother. Otherwise, he can't do it so well."

Alan Dunn

1937

"We, comma, who are gathered here in prayer, comma, thank Thee for Thy past and continued kindnesses, semicolon, we..."

"We, comma, who are gathered here in prayer, comma, thank Thee for Thy past and continued kindnesses, semicolon, we..."

Alan Dunn

1932

"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"

"Isn't this something we don't believe in?", "It's one Hell of a mess.", "Cheer up, there's a light ahead.", "Don't they know who we are?"

Alan Dunn

1960

“Somebody had figured out that it would take 245,678,987,456 potatoes to lick the Axis.”

“Somebody had figured out that it would take 245,678,987,456 potatoes to lick the Axis.”

Alan Dunn

1942

" 'The anti-windfall tax is the excess of the amount due in 1942 or 1943, whichever is the lower, over the tax on the highest income of the years 1937, 1938, 1939, or 1940 plus $20,000 figured at 1942 Revenue Act rates'...Well, that much is clear."

" 'The anti-windfall tax is the excess of the amount due in 1942 or 1943, whichever is the lower, over the tax on the highest income of the years 1937, 1938, 1939, or 1940 plus $20,000 figured at 1942 Revenue Act rates'...Well, that much is clear."

Alan Dunn

1943

"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."

"Nixon's scheduled a photographic flyby of our planet for someone in the seventies. That doesn't give us much chance to spruce up."

Alan Dunn

1970

"A lady's voice, sir, and she has the wrong number, but she says she must talk to someone."

"A lady's voice, sir, and she has the wrong number, but she says she must talk to someone."

Alan Dunn

1937

"Well, there you are. I guess all I needed was someone to draw me out."

"Well, there you are. I guess all I needed was someone to draw me out."

Alan Dunn

1945

" - a clearing site for an apt. hotel - soon as we can tear these down - " [pub - "I wonder who lived in those old shacks before the neighborhood was improved."]

" - a clearing site for an apt. hotel - soon as we can tear these down - " [pub - "I wonder who lived in those old shacks before the neighborhood was improved."]

Alan Dunn

1928

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