Life, 1928-06-21 · page 9 of 38
Life — June 21, 1928 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon:** "Sail into him, Moscoe—ya got the wind in your direction!" depicts a boxing match before a large crowd. The reference to "Moscoe" (likely Moscow) suggests Cold War-era satire about Soviet-American conflict, metaphorically represented as a boxing match. The crowd represents public interest in this geopolitical struggle. **Bottom Cartoon:** Shows a hero confronting armed soldiers, saying "Before you shoot, gentlemen, tell me if I'm correct in guessing that this is an Old Gold." This advertises Old Gold cigarettes through humor—the "hero" attempts to distract executioners by discussing the brand, suggesting the product's appeal or ubiquity. The page also contains philosophical quotes attributed to various figures (Calvin Coolidge, Mussolini, etc.) and a slogan supporting Will Rogers for political office.
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he hopes to get into Back Bay society by currying favor with President Lowell. When a tabloid newspaper, aided and abetted by the State of New Jersey, saged that farce, which might have been a tragedy, known as the Hall-Mills trial, the case for the prosecution was taken out to the jury-room and gravely dissected bya typical jury of stolid farmers. Some of them talked to the press, afterwards, and uttered some illuminating comment on the gang of ex-convicts, village gos- sips and other woozy folk fee whose gatements the Government had asked for a conviction. In their opinion, Mr. Prosecuting Attorney lacked but five per- sons to make his team of witnesses com- plete: Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm, and Ananias and Sapphira. Jurymen are not bamboozled so easily as some of us like to imagine. They have, of course, privileges and advantages that other men do not enjoy. But, in the space of a column, one or two of the Hall-Mills jurors spoke more straight truth about the preposterous case for the prosecution than the newspapers published in fifteen miles of print. Edmund Pearson. Little Rambles with Serious Thinkers While the people of the United States as awhole are peaceful and law-abiding to aremarkable degree, it cannot be denied that we have had sporadic outbreaks of aime, especially those of violence, which are exceedingly disturbing. —Calvin Coolidge. Mussolini has rr.—Madame Elinor Glyn. Every woman endowed with natural and strongly marked feelings is gifted by na- “Sail into him, Mossco—ya got the wind in your direction!” ture to form instinctive judgments. She possesses what we call intuition. —Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. Cheap meals are just as delicious and nourishing as expensive meals. —Kathleen Norris. There is not enough to do around any house to occupy a strong and healthy in- dividual more than a few minutes every day.—Heywood Broun. Women lack the finer feelings which are in men.—4d. B. See. Cows are never perturbed by introspec- tion or by worry. —William Lyon Phelps. “Isn't that New York,” cry the cynics again. Yes. A big unfeeling town But somewhere underneath it there is a beating heart.—Charles Hanson Towne. A republic is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. —William Randolph Hearst. The other day there came to me a pack- age of books from a well-known Ameri- can publishing house. ....What I found, not to put too fine a point upon it, was simply Pilge. #1. L. Mencken. SLOGAN Disrecaro the Conventions—vote for Will Rogers. Tue Hero: Before you shoot, gentlemen, tell me if I’m correct in guessing that this is an Old Gold. comicbooks.com