Take Me To Your Leader(1958)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Imran Ghory wrote:

> I haven't verified this, but apparently the phrase "take me to
> your president" was first used in 1950 in a cartoon by Alex Graham in the
> New Yorker, and based upon this the phrase "take me to you
> leader" was used in one of the early Marvin the Martian cartoons.

I realize you haven't verified this, but can you tell me where you got the
attribution from?  Any help you can provide would be most appreciated.

Fred


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