Judge, 1931-08-29 · page 6 of 36
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# "Judge: Just the Best Time" This page features a humorous story about a NYC mayor's casual beach outing. The illustration shows a well-dressed man lounging at the beach with companions, labeled "Big Moment in the Life of a N.Y.C. Mayor—He gets a good laugh at the City Investigation Committee." The satire targets the mayor's apparent indifference to civic duties. While he relaxes at the beach eating hot dogs and socializing, the City Investigation Committee—presumably investigating municipal corruption or mismanagement—continues its work. The joke suggests the mayor treats serious governance with levity, prioritizing leisure and socializing with friends (including someone named Baldy) over addressing the committee's concerns. The cartoon mocks official negligence and the casual attitude of public servants toward accountability.
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JUDGE JUST THE BEST TIME “VY Juat’s that, Madam? You want a pair of stockings that will stretch? Well, these special $1.67 a pair moire open-work in’ gun-metal and flesh tints are just what you want, lady. They won't break, crack, rust or fade and they'll stretch like a. rel- utive's check, We keep them especial- ly for ladies from the circus who Nave rubber skin. And, lady, they'll wear like a fireman's he Whoops! There she sore. It must be the heat or maybe all Bic Moment ws tHe Lire or a N.Y. By Questix Revonps those transatlantic flights or some- thing, but our customers seem to be iwful touchy lately, Every time I open my mouth [ put my foot in it. I try to be pleasant and live up to the Weinstock motto, “Service With a Smile,” but all I get is laughed at. Anyhow, Mamie, I’m glad she's gone. Now I can tell you about yesterday, and, Mamie, I'm just smothered. I and Jack went out and we had just the hest time, and Mamie, he proposed to me and I am so excited that this morn- ing I fried the oatmeal and boiled the C. Mayor He gets a good laugh at the City Investigation Committee. 4 toast. When do we step off? Mamie, it ain’t exactly de Jack . Well 2 and didn’t actually propose, but it came to the same thing and you might say we are practically engaged. I'll tell you. Yesterday morning, it being Sun- day, Jack came around and he said, i, Babe, with “How about going to the bea and giving the your fat Jack is such a card, always saying things like that. So, I packed a lunch of hard-berled eggs, ham sandwiches, and marmalade and_ potato chips and we go to the beach, It is so warm at the beach that they are throwing hot dogs into the ocean and ing them out cooked. lay on the sand grabbing ourselves a load of sun and Vitamin B or D, or what- ever it is, and we mect some friends of Jack's. One is a party named Baldy and the blonde menace with him is a natives beauty ? a trea charmer named Jane. This Baldy party has lots of hair and T don’t sec why they call him Baldy, so I my name is Baldwin,” he “my phone number is Holycourt 4700, they call me God's gift to blondes, so call me up sometime, bright and we'll put on a storm “Listen, you mug,” I with dignity, “save chatter for the car! trade. And take your phone number, and put it in a bot- and toss it in the ocean. be some porpoise will find it and him and you can have a great time together as you will probably look brothers. If my Jack hearn them cracks you made to me, he would wind you around a lifeguard’s neck just for fun and drop you on the boardwalk to sce if you bounced.” “My,” he says, admiring- ou must be nuts about says, Iam so nuts about you,” T squelch him with, “that from now on you are just another bunch of poison ivy (Continued on page 28) comicbooks.com