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JERRY COSTELLO, Albany Knickerbocker News
As Europe plunged into war, isolationists decried President Roosevelt's attempt to alter neutrality legislation. In 1939, Roosevelt, wanting to better arm the Allies against German aggression, asked Congress to eliminate the arms embargo in the "cash-and-carry" provision of the Neutrality Act of 1937. Jerry Costello showed Uncle Sam pulling Roosevelt back from the brink of war and using the law as his anchor. Costello spent forty years of his forty-seven-year career as a cartoonist at the Albany Knickerbocker News, from 1922 to 1962. |