Judge, 1931-02-21 · page 3 of 36
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# "Judging the News" - February 21, 1931 This editorial cartoon page satirizes current events through four comic vignettes featuring caricatured figures playing chess. The commentary addresses: a proposed nightclub regulation in New York; a Philadelphia incident involving a spectator throwing a pop bottle at a prizefight; nostalgia for pre-Prohibition movies with drinking scenes; and General Butler's diplomatic efforts (likely regarding Italy, referencing someone "picking out an important person like the king"). The chess motif suggests these situations involve strategic maneuvering or game-like power plays. The cartoons mock political absurdities and social contradictions of the era—particularly Prohibition's lingering effects on entertainment and culture. Ex-President Coolidge apparently planned an ocean liner voyage. The humor relies on contemporary political awareness now largely lost to modern readers.
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: 1 | | | ' | | \ | \ | \ | \ Jack SuuttLewortu, Editor Grorce Jean NATHAN Ricuarp J. WALSH Swney S. Lenz, Contributing Editors JUDGING THE NEWS + would make night club life in New York a little more peaceful if pa- trons would check their colts and gats too. A time to forget about the depression. It seems to be taking the stock market a ng time, too. A ttretaton at a Philadelphia prize- fight was recently arrested for throwing a pop bottle. To date, how- ever, nobody has been arrested for throwing a fight. A’? once there was a movie without any drinking scenes in it and even without any reference to drink in it. But that was before prohibition. JUDGE, Votume toae ted ad Soperignted 931) tary, 18 East 4st 15¢ 8 copy. Published weeny by Path to the fact that every artics Drovintons of rections of the Copyright Law of the U- 1 E.xPeesinest Cootsvor is to have an ocean liner named after him. And its navigators, we suppose, will set forth its daily progress in terms of longitude and_platitude. A’? the next time . Butler wants to talk about somebody in Italy he'd better pick out some unimportant person like the king. 8 7 [> ered as Second-Class Matter, October 21, 1881. at the Post Ofce at New York City, N.Y.. under oct of March 3, ‘ASditonal entry at Jamaica, (1,8. Ys 48.00 _ Tubing Coy heer 18 East th pines New Verh, No ‘Joseph T. C “Treasurer: Sooner: ig und it Fic Gopeariog 1b FUDGE ts proected under tos comicbooks.com