["CHICK" LATHER'S VANITIES OF 1924.FORD SALES CAMPAIGN CARTOONS]
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Chick Lather's Vanities of 1924, Part Two. Three salesmen ‘At Lew Harris’s Place’ labeled ‘…urch,’ ‘Fox,’ and ‘O’Leary’ converge on man labeled ‘An order,’ caption ‘Out After the Business.’ Man by car asking, ‘Will somebody please wait on me!’ ‘Jack Walker and Henry Jones,’ two men embracing, ‘This kind of friendly spirit should exist between all Ford dealers.’ ‘Jamie Glasgow, city roadman,’ man shoots dog from car, ‘Endeavors to call on all the Detroit dealers in one day.’ ‘Donaldson Bros., George, Robert, the buck passers,’ one says ‘See Robert, he looks after that,’ the other says ‘See George, he looks after that.’ ‘A.L. Denk. Mr. Lathers is glad that all city dealers did not go south,’ man on beach says ‘Gee, I wish I was a life saver or something.’ “Robt. Ford, collector of antiques,’ garage with old cars and parts piled high around it. ‘Rodney Weeks,’ ‘Customer -- is this a casting, or a forging, Rodney? -- Rodney -- I be d---- if I know, but it does the business.’ Captions: “Will we deliver a million cars and trucks? -- Why not?” “Will we have a Detroit representative in the National Ford Sales Campaign?” “Nothing else but!” “Will we beat Chicago? -- You bet!!” “Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he, with a chuckle, replied; That maybe it couldn’t, but he would be one, Who wouldn’t say so till he tried. So he buckled right in with a trace of a grin on his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing, That couldn’t be done, and he…did it.” [1924]
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