Judge, 1932-06-25 · page 8 of 37
Judge — June 25, 1932 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains commentary and cartoons satirizing American society and politics. The "Complaint" section mocks widespread corruption, referencing the Yale Daily News's claim that city politics is too corrupt for college men to engage with honestly—comparing it to historical Brazilian bond schemes. The main cartoon depicts a sinking ship captioned "Olsen, I told you not to let that blonde take the wheel!"—a visual joke playing on the stereotype that women are poor drivers, a common satirical trope of the era. The "Squared Off" section offers social commentary on various behaviors: reckless motorists, politicians as "bootleggers" (likely referencing Prohibition-era corruption), and domestic observations about boarding houses. The illustration of a hot dog/brokers stand parodies commercialism and get-rich-quick schemes.
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JUDGE Complaint V ELL, there’s still a sucker being born every minute. The trouble is he hasn't got anything you can take away from him. The Yale Daily News says that city politics is too dirty d crooked for college men to eng: in. Col- lege men, it will be remembered, used to swarm into the honest pro- fession of selling Brazilian bonds to the public. And they used to gossip over a back fence but now they do it over a national network. When Russia takes up baseball in a big way our sympathies go out to the player who does not show mass production in base hits. ‘D it’s not only the hats of me aspirants that are in ing. It’s the aspirants themselves. And the v some motor- speed along through the week-end traffic, you'd they were late for their accident. Abraham Lincoln said you can’t fool all the people all the time, but that was ye be- fore the railroads were put- ting out time tables. In the old days, when a man praised the laws of his coun- try we called him a patriot. Nowadays we call him a boot- legger. The carpet at the top of the stairs in our boarding house is known as a magic carpet. A person often goes flying into space on it. “Olsen, I told you not to let that blonde take the wheel!” comicbooks.com