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# "Judging the News" - February 22, 1933 This editorial cartoon page uses satirical commentary on current events. The top section critiques: 1. **Bank failures**: Bandits robbing banks are compared to bankers and depositors during the financial crisis 2. **Prohibition's end**: Jokes about the saloon's return and loss of "free lunch" (basic food service) 3. **International tensions**: References to Japanese-Chinese conflict and currency deflation affecting politicians The bottom cartoon depicts a domestic scene where someone says "I think that I shall never see-ee a Po-em lovely as a tree-ee"—apparently mocking sentimentality or poetry during hard economic times (the Great Depression era, 1933). The crowded, struggling family suggests financial hardship makes such romantic sentiments seem disconnected from reality.
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