The Pot Boils, Oct. 2, 1944

The campaign moved into high gear. The U.S. people, big & small, prominent and nameless, began to make up their minds, choose sides, form organizations, collect funds, hurl epithets.

¶ For nine weeks the Chicago Tribune had run colored front-page cartoons built around a campaign jingle: "BACK TO WORK QUICKER WITH DEWEY AND BRICKER." But the New Deal-hating Tribune had puzzled its readers. It had failed to find a four-color jingle lampooning Franklin Roosevelt. Last week a braying Democratic jackass appeared on Page One, bearing aloft a banner: "BACK ON RELIEF WITH...