Most papers pull the strip one that can’t cut it fast enough is forced to publish an apology to the company.ġ943: FDR fans on the editorial board of the Louisville Courier-Journal take notice when Annie faces off against corrupt, hypocritical bureaucrats in charge of wartime rationing. One character explains, per TIME, “OF COURSE, THERE HAD TO BE A FAVORABLE RETAIL CREDIT REPORT-BUT THAT WAS EASY.” The editor pulls the comic strip, and in its place runs a black banner reading “DELETED! FOR VIOLATION OF READER TRUST.”ġ937: Gray is accused of tarnishing the good name of one of the nation’s largest credit agencies, Retail Credit Company, after Annie cheats death at the hands of an unscrupulous acquaintance who has insured her for $100,000-and then shoved her into a river. the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, to attack and condemn all persons, all institutions, and all ideas save those they choose to label acceptable… … all political leaders, and it follows every public official, are at once indicted as ‘crooks’ and to accept such a sweeping indictment is to permit the creator of Little Orphan Annie and. As he describes the offending plotline, per TIME: To the editor of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch, the rhetoric seems better suited to Ayn Rand than to America’s best-loved orphan. 1935: The plot takes a turn for the propagandistic when political racketeers threaten to destroy one of Daddy Warbucks’ factories.