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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America's National Toy
That was the question posed by a political cartoon in the January 10 ... Chamber of Commerce was hosting for incoming President William Howard Taft, the cartoon told the teddy bear to “beat it!” and ...
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Presidential Politics
On October 14, 1912, Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore ... with the Taft administration, Roosevelt leapt into the ring to oppose the president of his own party. A political brawl ...
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How a Stuffed Animal Named Billy Possum Tried—and Failed—to Replace the Teddy Bear as America’s National Toy
It might seem ridiculous to suggest that the beloved teddy bear, named for the story of Theodore Roosevelt ... served to Taft for dinner on January 15. A 1909 political cartoon about Billy ...