Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. The Library of Congress does not own rights to material in its collections. May be restricted: Information on reproduction rights available in LC P&P Restrictions Statement.Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.) Governmental investigations-United States-1940-1950 Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)-1940-1950 Poe, Edgar Allan,-1809-1849.-Purloined letter The caption alludes to Edgar Allan Poe's story The Purloined Letter.īerryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949, artist Sherlock Holmes relieved his tensions by injecting cocaine and the needle quote is the famous last line from the 1939 film, The Hound of the Baskervilles with Basil Rathbone.

Berryman has fun here invoking several classic mystery stories.

Ickes denied his involvement and testified before a grand jury. Hopkins denied writing the letter, and Senator William Langer charged that it had actually been written at the instigation of Ickes, a long-time Hopkins foe. Nelson Sparks reported in a book attacking Willkie that Hopkins had written a letter implying the support of the Roosevelt Administration for another Willkie presidential candidacy in 1944. Ickes says, 'Quick, Watson, the needle! Something's gone awry.' In a minor political scandal in the winter of 1943-44, C.

Cartoon shows Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Attorney General Francis Biddle, former Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, and presidential assistant Harry Hopkins dressed like Sherlock Holmes in deer stalker hats, examining footprints in the snow that are headed toward the White House and then veer off to the Interior Department.

The case of the purloined letter