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| | AlterNet: CORPORATE FOCUS: Stealing Skippy |
 | | Through Skippy and his other characters, Crosby lampooned politicians and crusaded against corporate crime, Al Capone, the Ku Klux Klan, and for civil rights, child labor laws and freedom of the press. |
 | | On the peanut butter label, Rosefield used the same Skippy lettering, picket fence, and paint bucket made famous by Crosby in his comic strip. |
 | | Bestfoods wants Tibbetts and Skippy, Inc., her Annandale, Virginia-based company, to be held in contempt of court for violating a 1986 court order prohibiting them from "communicating in any manner with anyone that... |
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