The Year's Best Idea!
A harried man in shirtsleeves and a drawing-board visor holds up a large sign reading 'Merry Christmas to all of you!!' with holly sprigs, while dozens of paper slips bearing names of local sports figures, clubs and schools lie in a heap on the floor. The technique tell is glittering generalities, though a weak fit: a single seasonal greeting stands in for many individual ones, and the technique is present only in the generalised goodwill of the message.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- December 24, 1934
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Theme
- Media and information
- Event
- 1934
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743097 (NAID 5743097).
Text on the object
Merry Christmas TO ALL OF YOU !! I HAD T'GIVE UP FOLKS---- THERE WERE TOO MANY-- BUT THIS IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO PUT OVER! GRIFF; JACK HAGERTY & GEORGETOWN; ST. ALBANS; MIKE MARTIN; BILL WOOD; MANOR CLUB; ST. JOHNS; WASHINGTON GOLF & C.C.; BUCKY; JOE CRONIN; GOLDIE AHEARN; DUTCH BERGMAN & C.U.; BILLIE BUTLER; GEORGE ISEMANN; BOXING COMMISSION; JIM PIXLEE & G.W.U; LORRAINE GULLI; HOWARD LIVINGSTON; COLUMBIA C.C.; ED EYNON; MARTY GALLAGHER; JOE TURNER; NATIE BROWN; DIST. A.A.U.; JACK FABER & MARYLAND U.; CHEVY CHASE CLUB; CHARLEY REYNOLDS; BEAVER DAM C.C.; KENWOOD CLUB; HARRY GROVES; JACK WHALEN; WALTER YOUNG & AMERICAN U.; JIMMY LAKE; GALLAUDET; HIGH SCHOOLS; GONZAGA; PATSY DONOVAN; POTOMAC BOAT CLUB; CHRIS HEURICH JR.; DENNY HUGHES; CONGRESSIONAL C.C.; HOWARD CAMPBELL; FRANKIE MANN; INDIAN SPRINGS C.C. JIM BERRYMAN
