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TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.

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