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Life Magazine – March 6, 1924 (# 2157) – Rea Irvin – Oil Number
$38.00
Magazine Condition : Good
2 in stock
Description
Cover : Men in a dory on the ocean spearing a whale labeled “Tea Pot Dome”, “Thar she blows!!’, art by Rea Irvin.
– OIL NUMBER (petroleum industry). Tea Pot Dome is home to a famous oil scandal.
– Full page color American Radiator Company ad with warm breakfast room, “Breakfast – the zero hour.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (John Singer Sargent), C. H. Sykes (Morgiana of Montana), P.L. Crosby (Skippy)
– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover “Bargain Day in Washington, if the craze for government property continues.”
– Some current events include : Mr. Vanderlip, Mr. Harding and the Marion Star, New York Evening Post, Exploits of Secretary Fall and the revolting malfeasances of Colonel Forbes of the Veterans’ Bureau, Ramsay Macdonald is Premier of England, The upstart, braggart millionaires of the Sinclair and Doheny type (oil barons) will lay their oily palms on the government of the United States at their peril.
– Great quote by the editor “The idea of acquiring a fortune and then going into politics is altogether too much like the idea of acquiring a fortune and then going in for the Christian life.”
– Full page color Lincoln Motor company ad with purple car and the Brooklyn Bridge.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1924 content – fun!
– Full page color American Radiator Company ad with warm breakfast room, “Breakfast – the zero hour.”
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (John Singer Sargent), C. H. Sykes (Morgiana of Montana), P.L. Crosby (Skippy)
– Two page centerspread art by Ellison Hoover “Bargain Day in Washington, if the craze for government property continues.”
– Some current events include : Mr. Vanderlip, Mr. Harding and the Marion Star, New York Evening Post, Exploits of Secretary Fall and the revolting malfeasances of Colonel Forbes of the Veterans’ Bureau, Ramsay Macdonald is Premier of England, The upstart, braggart millionaires of the Sinclair and Doheny type (oil barons) will lay their oily palms on the government of the United States at their peril.
– Great quote by the editor “The idea of acquiring a fortune and then going into politics is altogether too much like the idea of acquiring a fortune and then going in for the Christian life.”
– Full page color Lincoln Motor company ad with purple car and the Brooklyn Bridge.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1924 content – fun!
