The Cowardly Lion

``They need to resist this pressure. Yes, commodity prices are up — but that’s no reason to perpetuate mass unemployment. To paraphrase William Jennings Bryan, we must not crucify our economies upon a cross of rubber.''


Paul Krugman

Jennings Bryan

Cowardly Lion

From the last link:

``Political interpretations

Main article: Political interpretations of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Some historians, such as Henry M. Littlefield in American Quarterly,^[4] have suggested that Baum modeled the Cowardly Lion after politician William Jennings Bryan, or politicians in general.''