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# "Judging the News" – Judge Magazine, February 26, 1931 This page satirizes early 1930s economic crisis topics. The header cartoon shows five judicial figures spelling "JUDGE," commenting on news judgment. The text snippets mock: - **Bank failures**: A clerk admitting difficulty stealing from a New York bank during the Depression, with the joke that banks themselves were already failing - **Frozen assets**: Closed banks forcing janitors to handle loan paperwork - **Representative Watson**: Unclear what operation is referenced, but the satire suggests vague political talk - **Swindlers**: A boxing-related arrest joke about hitting The main cartoon depicts St. Bernard monks in snowy mountains receiving a message from "lost Americans" requesting ginger ale—satirizing Prohibition (alcohol ban) and Depression-era hardship, suggesting Americans were so desperate they'd ask monks for contraband liquor.
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©cig 196270 FER 26 Jack SnuttLewortu, Editor A BANK CLERK has just admitted he didn’t find it difficult to steal two dred thousand dollars from a New York bank. The hard part came when he tried to find a safe place to de- posit it. banks that were closed of frozen assets must have let the janitor handle their loans. Axp those because os y Z Grorce Jean NaTHAN Ricarp J. WAtsH JUDGING THE NEWS i being lenient with Gen. Butler the Navy Department probably took into consideration his latest service to his country. He crowded Clara Bow off the front page. A’ Representative Watson has re- covered from an operation. At last a Congressman with something definite to talk about! Sr, Bernarnv Monx—It’s a note from some lost Americans. we can send them out a dozen ginger ale! JUDGE, Votume 100. Asz9, | Additional entr; 2574, February 28.1931. Entered as jamaica, Lt... $5.00 t a aad coprrignted 1931 193i) the 'U, H. and Great Britain; Fred 1. Rogan, President: Sidney in Bureet, New York. Ne Ye Part cular attertion le called to the fact that pro" They want to know Siwney S. Lenz, Contributing Editors Asotin depressing thing about see- ing so many apple-venders around town is that some of them may decide to write books of memoirs. NV x SCUMELING was arrested on a aye charge of hitting a man. Old- time ringside fans tell us they can re- member when hitting men was not an unusual thing for a prize-fighter. of Section 3 1 Second-Clase Matter. October 21, 188}. at the Post C \ Bates, Treasurer: J ‘ooney, every ariicte and Sicture appeariag 18 FUDGE ts provecced under the comicbooks.com