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March 28, 1933

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Title
On the City Hall Job
Creator
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Date
March 28, 1933
Identifier
715.3318228.CP
Description
Political cartoon commentary on the "rebuilding" of City Hall with the resignation of Charles H. Kline as mayor by the artist Cyrus Cotton Hungerford. Senator James J. Coyne (1925-1935), Republican organization leader of Pittsburgh carries City Council President John S. Herron, soon to be Mayor of Pittsburgh for the rest of Charles H. Kline's mayoral tenure. Mayor Kline's second term would run short as Mayor Kline and a supplies department head would be charged with 43 counts of misfeasance and malfeasance in office in 1931, according to his Pennsylvania State Senate short biography. Mayor Kline was convicted with the charges in 1932. though he would appeal for the next year before dying in July, 1933 due to declining health. In 1912 Hungerford began as a newspaper cartoon artist at the Pittsburgh Sun, afterwards he produced daily cartoons at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1927 until his retirement in 1977.
Type
still image
Subject
Editorial cartoons--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Hungerford, Cy, 1889-1983.
Source
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2002
Collection
Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Rights Information
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