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Judge — May 1937 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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# Political Satire Analysis This Judge magazine page contains two distinct pieces of political satire from the New Deal era. **Top cartoon**: Shows two large figures labeled "I live for May Day," satirizing communist sympathizers or labor radicals. The context suggests mockery of May Day celebrations and leftist politics. **Bottom cartoon**: Depicts WPA (Works Progress Administration) officials at a "proposed dam site." One man threatens to tell Washington "a bunch of beavers beat us to it!"—mocking the WPA's infrastructure projects by comparing government workers unfavorably to beavers' engineering abilities. This ridicules the effectiveness and competence of Roosevelt's New Deal programs, a common conservative critique. Both cartoons reflect Judge's skeptical, often hostile stance toward 1930s New Deal policies and communist/labor movements.
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fusing an official limousine and the like, has gone into a complete reverse. He is taken about the Avenues in a car as big as the Department of Commerce Building and has quit opening the door himself when he wants out. His even. ing tails are perfection and you could put a cinnamon bun between his little finger and his coffee cup these days. It isn’t “Cactus Jack” any more, it's “Mr. Garner, the Texas Banker.” NS doubt many of the class remem- ber the man who wrote the treatise on the bread falling the butter side down and the collar button rolling un- der the dresser. He proved statistically that the chances were even-steven and then his manuscript blew into the fire. There is something satisfactory about that story, just as in the one about Forrest Kunz of Iona, Michigan. For- rest went up in * plane, dropped his glasses and later found them intact. Then he dropped them on the floor and broke them. UR Havana man, who has an in- side wire to the presidential bed- chamber, reports as follows: One evening Cuba's President Federico Bru was gliding from the theatre to the presidential palace in his limousine. As he passed the Capitol, he saw flood. "I live for May Day!” lights playing on its facade. The curious thing about this is that the Capitol is always lighted in honor of a new President. Cubans, who have seen it so lighted seven times in the last five years, like to think of the phenomenon as a kind of funeral dis- play. Federico Bru gulped. “Ah, Roderi- guez,” he murmured, to his chauffeur, “better not drive to the palace tonight. Take me home.” The chauffeur nodded interrogative- ly at the floodlights. “Precisely,” the President said. The chauffeur explained that the lights had been turned on to convenience some American newsreel men. President Bru sank back in the cush. ions. “A bueno,” he said; “to the pres- idential palace, Roderiguez.” IS Kansas City a woman was knocked down by a car. Out popped Sir Walter Raleigh in the person of Johnny Carroll, grocer. Sir John brushed the lady off, took her into his store, gave her a glass of water and inquired if there wasn't something else he could do for her. “Well,” she said, “I've got to get some groceries before I go home. Will you take me across the strect to the chain store?” RECENT news photo showed strikers and special deputies dis- agreeing over some lettuce out in Cali- fornia. The strikers did not want the lettuce to find its way into the salads of the nation, and the special deputies had been specially deputized to see that it did. So, informally armed with various weapons, the two groups were reason. ing with each other. “They're going to be pretty sore down in Washington if I tell them a bunch of beavers beat us to it!” comicbooks.com