Who Said Business is Dull?
9/16/1930
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This cartoon concerns issues of campaign irregularities that brought scandal in 1930. Although Clifford Berryman's cartoon may be an exaggeration--with its long line of detectives tailing the senatorial candidate--the 1930 senatorial race was undoubtedly full of intrigue. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee from Illinois, came under investigation for campaign irregularities by the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Campaign Expenditures, led by Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. In a series of hearings it was revealed that McCormick had hired detectives to tail suspected agents of the investigating committee. Amid accusations of bribery, break-ins, and shadowing, it became clear that both McCormick and the investigating committee had employed agents to investigate each other, and that the Department of Justice had hired agents to conduct its own investigation.
This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Senate.
National Archives Identifier: 1693530
Full Citation: Who Said Business is Dull?; 9/16/1930; Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/who-said-business-is-dull, November 3, 2024]Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Learn more on our privacy and legal page.