Judge, 1930-09-20 · page 7 of 36
Judge — September 20, 1930 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page The page contains two distinct satirical sections: **Top cartoon**: A judge figure towers over small people, illustrating a simile about finding something "hard to find as a shirt in a pile of pins." The accompanying text references wardrobe suit cases, Moscow executions for hoarding money, and Senate politics—suggesting commentary on economic inequality and governmental absurdity. **"Some Predictions for the Football Season"**: This section offers humorous forecasts about college football, including predictions about Notre Dame's endurance records, Eastern university scandals, radio announcers' errors, and Harvard-Yale game ticket demand. The bottom sketch titled "The Winner Is Congratulated" depicts a chaotic sports scene, likely satirizing the rowdy celebration or confusion following a game. Overall, the page combines political commentary with sports satire typical of Judge's general-interest humor.
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JUDGE | |) Simile | As hard to find as a shirt ina pile of pins, And now, we understand, the new- est wardrobe suit-cases will hold two hats, three suits, six quarts and an Austin, In Moscow recently ten persons | were sentenced to death for hoarding money. It’s thi like that which help make us realize how safe we are over here, And just to show the way things have chan the market these days nh job kee up with the has a tous ticker. A sena tor, like everybody else, gets winded while climbing the steps of the Capitol, but when he gets in the Sen- ate chamber he gets his second wind. “Do you suppose I could get a little raise? I'm thinkin’ of gettin’ married!” Some Predictions for the Football Season A. 88 football hero will arise who SY ill outshine Albie Booth. A lineman from Mid-Western team will fail to m the All-Ame' can, due to his having been injured in the first moment of play in the first gate of the season. The Notre Dame team will set a } new record for endurance Pullman car sitting. A well-known Eastern university will be accused of hiring its footbail players. A radio announcer will mispro- nounce the names of half the N.Y.U. football tea A sports writer on the Herald Trib- une will win the Pulitzer Prize for his wccount of the Pennsylvania-Cornell game. | There will be innumerable articles | written deploring how low Harvard | and Yale have sunk in football. | There will be an unprecedented de- } mand for tickets to the Yale Bowl for the Harvard-Yale football game. } There will be almost as many pre- } dictions upset on the gridiron as gin PS ) bottles in the stadium, Ea i] —Antivr Sipversratr The Winner Is Congratulated. | | 5 comicbooks.com