Judge, 1931-01-24 · page 4 of 36
Judge — January 24, 1931 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page satirizes Prohibition-era crime and reform in 1920s America. **"The Man Nobody Knows"** (top) mocks a man who frequents speakeasies, drinks bootleg gin, and uses Contract Law arguments to justify illegal activities—suggesting the hypocrisy of educated criminals who rationalize lawbreaking. **"Big Moments in the Life of a Reformer"** (bottom cartoon) shows a self-righteous reformer luxuriating amid naked entertainers in what appears to be an illegal speakeasy—the core satirical point being that vocal Prohibition reformers were themselves patrons of the very illegal establishments they publicly condemned. The "Gangster Activities" section (right) reports on actual mob violence and bootlegging operations, grounding the satire in real 1920s criminal activity that made such hypocrisy widespread and obvious to readers.
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JUDGE The Man Nobody Knows H' flips “dead” matches behind your radiators. He drinks your gin, and explains, tactfully, that’ his bootlegger handles nothing but rye and scotch, When he drops in for a few minutes, he asserts that Contract is passe and produces a Backgammon board to prove it. Ie pliments you on the way you stoke your furnace—then tells you how he could get a “little” more na ‘Little’ less coal. says that the way he figures it, > haven't even begun to see hard .and that the present unemploy- ment situation is good for another three years at least. —A.W. RK. And an appropriate ceremony at the opening of a new speakeasy would be to have the bouncer throw out the first bull. “Tsk, tsk, running over my own lawyer—imagine.” k y 9) Gangster Activities rasy conducted r Ravielli has been taken over by the Ban tino mob. Luigi has been taken over to Jersey, where he will probably be found in the morning by § police. “Waterman” Bianciti, business agent for the Corn pone Synd suite of cells worth for sever: A’ machine-gun concert was given last Sunday eve- ning by th honor of minio, ‘The trial of “Tony” Mal- lallo in the Brooklyn milk racket has been postponed to allow the defendant time to * several witnesses. “Doughnuts’’ Hilley. well-known second-story operator, was slightly wounded by a stray bullet yesterday when several cops opened fire on him, “Cigar-face” Cornpone flew from Miami to Havana recently to look over the Cuban market for American BIG MOMENTS IN THE LIFE OF A REFORMER He is called for Jury Duty in a love-nest trial. beer. —Dana L. Cotir. 2 comicbooks.com