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"...and then for three years before enlisting I worked for the A&P why?"
"...and then for three years before enlisting I worked for the A&P why?"

"...and then for three years before enlisting I worked for the A&P why?"

Artist (American, 1900 - 1974)
Date1942
ClassificationsCartoon
Mediumcrayon ink
DimensionsObject: 11 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (29.2 × 34.9 cm) Sheet: 11 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (29.2 × 34.9 cm)
Credit LineMary Petty and Alan Dunn Bequest
Object number1979.0825
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
"Here's the one - The Coming Armageddon - I wrote it four years ago - I remember I delivered it on a day that rained and only three people came. Why don't I change the wording a bit substituting 'atomic might' for 'military might' and let it solve my problem for next Sunday? After all, Dr. Blahr does it all the time - suppose I just read it to you - you can go right on sewing..."
Alan Dunn
1948
"I finally have it all worked out, and now you tell me not to seat a hawk next to a dove."
"I finally have it all worked out, and now you tell me not to seat a hawk next to a dove."
Alan Dunn
c 1966
"I figure we're a good two years ahead - America won't have brain-washing until 1957."
"I figure we're a good two years ahead - America won't have brain-washing until 1957."
Alan Dunn
1955
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
"I figure it would take a million astronauts ten million years to move us, stone by stone, to Planet Earth."
Alan Dunn
1970
"Before pronouncing sentence, may I say my salary is $27,500 a year and my total personal assets amount to $88,726.42. The court will now proceed...."
"Before pronouncing sentence, may I say my salary is $27,500 a year and my total personal assets amount to $88,726.42. The court will now proceed...."
Alan Dunn
1969
" '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
"America needn't feel so cockly. In a few years we'll have traffic snarls too."
"America needn't feel so cockly. In a few years we'll have traffic snarls too."
Alan Dunn
1959
"Remind me never to try to make a deal with a company whose founder hasn't been dead ten years."
"Remind me never to try to make a deal with a company whose founder hasn't been dead ten years."
Alan Dunn
1954
"I've been polishing that Siamese for ten years for just such an occasion -."
"I've been polishing that Siamese for ten years for just such an occasion -."
Alan Dunn
1948
"Best think tank in the country, and their conclusion after two years, thousands of dollars, and millions of words is "God only knows!"
"Best think tank in the country, and their conclusion after two years, thousands of dollars, and millions of words is "God only knows!"
Alan Dunn
1968
Image Not Available for "Go ask LaGuardia if he knows where last year's Christmas ornaments are."
"Go ask LaGuardia if he knows where last year's Christmas ornaments are."
Alan Dunn
1938
"It doesn't look as if anything will ever come of our having sent the Wendells a New Year's card, does it?"
"It doesn't look as if anything will ever come of our having sent the Wendells a New Year's card, does it?"
Alan Dunn
1930