The James Logan Courier

First up we have Popeye the Sailor in "Taxi Turvy," in which Popeye and Bluto both run a taxi service. Bluto bullies Popeye and gets him to turn over all of his cab fares. Popeye eventually gets the better of Bluto. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1954 and directed by Seymour Kneitel.



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Next we have Betty Boop in "Betty Boop's Big Boss," produced by Max Fleischer in 1933. According to Internet Archive reviewer Christine Hennig:
"It's the height of the Depression, so when Betty Boop sees a "Girl Wanted" sign, she comes on hard to the boss in order to get the job. After she gets hired, the boss comes on hard to her, but before you can say "sexual harassment," she's called out not only every cop in town, but the army and navy, too. This is a wonderfully weird and silly Betty, with anthropomorphic inanimate objects aplenty, and side jokes that you almost miss, such as the cops who are determined to arrest the boss for bad acting. Great fun."


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Asher Ginsberg (1856, Skvyra - 1927), also known by the pen name Ahad Ha'am (also: Achad Ha'am, Echad Ha'am etc.) (Hebrew: one of the people, compare with L.L. Zamenhof's Unuel), was one of the great pre-state Zionist thinkers.

Read Ahad Ha'am's 1897 essay "Jewish State and Jewish Problem."


Ahad Ha'am