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Ikie Eisenhower Vill KEEP US Boys In Power
| A two-sided, antisemitic card featuring "Ikie" Eisenhower on the left (with "IKIE" below) and a caricature of a Jewish man on the right (with "US" below). The Jewish man is saying "Ikie Eisenhower Vill KEEP US Boys In Power." Below is the Star of David. On the reverse of the card is a list. "Ikie is the choice of: 1. Bernard Baruch (Jewish American financier, philanthropist and statesman), 2. Senator Herbert Lehman (Jewish Senator from New York), 3. Henry Morganthau (Jewish U.S. Ambassador), 4. Felix Frankfurther (Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court), 5. Louie B. Mayer (Jewish Film Producer), 6. Jake Arvey (Chicago political leader), 7. Eleanor Roosevelt, 8. "Me Too" Dewey, 9. "Me Too" Duff, 10. Jimmie Roosevelt, 11. Harry Truman (U.S. President), 12. Claude Pepper (U.S. Senator) 13. Anna Rosenberg (Public Official) and 14. Anti-Defamation League." |
| Image ID: | 97249 |
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| Creation Date: | 1952 |
| Creator Name: | Patriotic Tract Society, St. Louis, Missouri |
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| Collection Name: | Classified file, circa 1850s-1950s |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | CF 673 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.75 x 2.5 inches |
| On the back, at the foot, it reads "Additional copies: $3.00 per hundred. Patriotic Tract Society, P.O. Box 1031, St. Louis 1, Missouri." The Patriotic Tract Society was started by Gerald L.K. Smith in May 1948 and headed by Donald Lohbeck. They printed millions of small leaflets that contained short antisemitic messages. The group copied the activities of world renowned Swedish pamphleteer Einar Aberg. |
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| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Judaism |
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| Propaganda |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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