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Bermuda Conference on Refugees
American and British delegates, including (from left to right), G. H. Hall, Sol Bloom, Richard Law, Harold W. Dodds, [ ], and Scott W. Lucas, meet in Bermuda during the Second World War to discuss the issues involving Jewish refugees and the…
Bloomington Bloomers Baseball Team
A collage of individual player photos surround a team photo of the Bloomington Bloomers Three-I League baseball team. The Three-I league was a semi-professional baseball league that ran during the summer months.Top row (l-r): Craig, center field;…
President Truman Finds the Pyramid Club Flourishing in Washington
A Washington Star political cartoon depicts the "Pyramid Club" blocking President Harry S. Truman from skipping town for Florida and leaving Washington, D.C. in shambles. The "Pyramid Club" included U.S. Senators, Scott W. Lucas (Democrat), Kenneth…
Giddap!
A political cartoon depicts Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States riding a hobby horse, whipping "White House stooges in Congress," Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn. The Democratic donkey…
Giving Him the Hot Foot
A Washington Daily News political cartoon depicts Congress as a sleeping man surrounded by a bag of fertilizer and "legislation seeds" and a shovel with a cobweb hanging from it. A lit match burns in the man's shoe representing Senate Majority Leader…
A Variation of the Hare-and-Tortoise Fable
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn urgently gesturing behind a flag labeled "Administration Promises" frustrated by the gridlock and inaction taking place in the two houses of…
Threatening to Get Another Boy
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas trying to carry the load of the Truman administration, while the Democratic Party leadership begins to lose patience. Image signature: "To Sen. Scott Lucas, from Joe Parrish."
There Can't Be Anything Political About It. I'm a Private Citizen!
A political cartoon depicts former senator-turned-lobbyist Scott Lucas lobbying United States Senator Paul H. Douglas (Illinois). Lucas wears a hat with three large feathers in the band labeled "Federal Judgeships."Image signature: "With regards to…
Heading South Going North
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas riding the Democratic Party horse backwards, as he endorses both the "Economy and Heavy Spending." Image signature: "To Sen. Scott W. Lucas, with my best wishes, Carey Orr."
What a Place to Let it Out!
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas sweating over John L. Lewis, American organized labor leader and United Mine Workers of America president (1920-1960), dumping a cat out of the "Period of Inaction" bag into the…
Harry S. Truman and Scott W. Lucas, Taft-Hartley Act
A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas at odds with President Harry S. Truman over the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Although Truman was opposed to an act that limited the power of labor unions, citing that it was…
Hold Your Sword, Sir Harry-He's Only a Pet Dragon!
A political cartoon depicts Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd as a knight holding a sword labeled "Budget Cut." Senator Scott Lucas, dressed as a British Beefeater attempts to proetect the "Government Spending" dragon from Byrd's sword by claiming,…