Life, 1925-11-05 · page 21 of 50
Life — November 5, 1925 — page 21: what you’re looking at
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This page contains four separate political cartoons satirizing 1920s American figures and events: 1. **Top left**: Haiti's President Louis Borno reviews his Marine Corps before deployment to the U.S.—likely mocking American military intervention in Haiti. 2. **Center**: The "Secretary of Society" awards a silver cup to Gerald Chapman, a notorious criminal, for being the "most fascinating criminal" of 1924-1925—sarcasm about sensationalizing crime. 3. **Top right**: A minister balances a woman reading the Book of Job on a skyscraper ledge as religious "spectacle"—mocking excessive religious showmanship. 4. **Bottom left**: Ex-Congressman Andrew Volstead, author of Prohibition legislation, must step aside for trucks smuggling Canadian liquor—the ultimate irony: Prohibition's architect humiliated by the lawbreaking it spawned. 5. **Bottom right**: A salesman reports expenses to Winston Churchill—unclear reference, likely mocking either salesmanship culture or Churchill's fiscal policies.
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: LIFE - 13 ce Fhe News tr Piehwres B20 PRESIDENT LOUIS BORNO OF HAITI re- views the Haitian Marine Corps on the de frounds at Port au Prince as it embarks for the United States, where it will be employed’ to suppr lawlessness, preserve der and safeguard B interests. THE SECRETARY OF SOCIETY THE LATEST WRINKLE IN PUBLIC SENTIMENTALISM | re WORSHIP. Going the “Bible mara- sents the society's silver thon” one better, the Rev. Archibald J. cup to Gerald Chapman, in Soap of Milwaukee has Miss Fannie his rooms at the Wethers- Gueen, noted uilibrist, read T field State Prison in Con- Book of Job while balanced on a ¢! necticut, for being the on the topmost ledge of the most fascinating criminal National Bank Building, fifteen stori of the 1924-1925 season. ‘above the street. SHUNNED AND FORSAKEN, Ex-Congressman Andrew J. Volstead, ona © CRACK TRAVELING SALESMAN returns to his home office lonely walking tour of his native state, Minnesota, is caught by our photogra- _—to refill his sample case A. C. G. A. P. pher at the moment when he is obliged to step out of the road to allo known among Rotarians as “T! Wagon-traia of motor vans, loaded with a consignment of Canadian liquor, from a swing around the southern territory where to pass him by on their way to Duluth. ling the British Empire, submits his exoense account to Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer. comicbooks.com