Judge — January 1937 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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The Judge Jr. 1937 HIGH HAT AWARD No. 1 To: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, The White House, Washington, D.C. Citation: For having won the greatest popular victory in our records since Washington and Monroe. In acknowledgment of a stupendous task well done, the American people have given Mr. Roosevelt a tremendous mandate. We believe that future histor- ians, as the years bring the complete perspective, will record Roosevelt along with Jefferson, or Jackson, or Lincoln. We believe that in him the times provi- dentially produced the man; that we have lived through an era far more dan- gerous than any of us fully realized; that our very form of government might have perished had we not been blessed with a leader endowed with those quali- ties of courage, vision and sympathy which are needed to survive a crisis. Judge Jr. sincerely believes that Mr. Roosevelt's second administration is go- ing to be the greatest in our history, and takes great pleasure in presenting him with the Number 1 Award of 1937 —A Dobbs High Hat! ame Wary re ase "I didn’t know it was loaded! I just said, ‘Hands up, Mr. Brown, and it went off!” The Judge Jr. 1937 FLANNEL NIGHT CAP AWARD No. 1 To: The owners of the London “Times” and the London “Daily Mirror.” Citation: For thoroughly muffing the biggest news story of modern times and then childishly trying to blame the “newspaper hooligans of the United States” for the gross mishandling. The “Times” and “Daily Mirror,” however, didn’t think they could trust the public—they let, or rather forced, the King to break the story himself, by printing pictures and the like. They choose to think of themselves, it seems, as statesmen first and publishers second —a long-shot second, too. And then, when facts forced themselves into the open, they cast wildly about for someone to blame—in this case, the American press! “Pants to match yer Two flannel night caps, boy, cut coats, mister?” : ‘specially thick. for Statesmen-Publishers! Judge comicbooks.com