Life, 1928-11-02 · page 15 of 48
Life — November 2, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This cartoon satirizes a young woman at what appears to be a baseball game or sporting event, surrounded by enthusiastic male spectators in period dress (1920s style). The woman sits among men wearing striped uniforms (possibly umpires or officials) and is raising her arms enthusiastically, matching their excited gestures. The joke likely mocks either: - A woman attending a sporting event "inappropriately" or entering male-dominated spaces - Overly enthusiastic female sports fans during the era when women's participation in sports culture was still novel The accompanying articles address Prohibition enforcement and the 1928 election ("Vote for Rogers/Smith/Hoover"), reflecting contemporary political debates of the period.
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Tue Girt Wuo Sat on tne Wronc Sine or THE Frecp Progress of Prohibition Enforcement Hersert Hoover claims that the Prohibi- ton amendment protects the American home, and a woman in Wisconsin sues for a divorce on the ground that her hus- band keeps a barrel of wine in their bed- room to drink it through a hose during the night; in Baltimore a widowed mother of seven children gets a jail sentence with a $100 fine for violation of the Volstead Act, and a Chicago woman who is polit- ically wet sues her husband who is polit- ically dry on the ground that he has been using intoxicating liquors to excess every week-end since the enactment of the Vol- sead law, and that once, while drunk, he sruck her during an argument about Prohibition; the CAristian Herald in an editorial states that the rank and file of America is dry, and a Florida newspaper crusading for better bootleggers asks its readers to “see to it that liquor-selling under the Eighteenth Amendment is in the hands of men of as good judgment as in the old days of the licensed saloon”; because good liquor has been made ex- pensive in New York thirty-four people die of the effects of poisoned alcohol, and a Prohibition official remarks, “When we get the lid on tighter they'll be drop- ping dead all over the city.” W. W. Scott. LAST FOUR DAYS! Stocan—Now is the time for all good campaign orators to come to the aid of the other party. Melodies of the Months Novemser is a mellow month, A glad-to-meet-a-fellow month, A month for votes, for overcoats, a bally- hooey bold Political maneuver month, A Vote-for-Smith-or-Hoover month, A month to hoard your fuel stored against the winter's cold. November is Thanksgiving month, A filled-with-joy-of-living month When pigskins soar, when rooters roar, when Nimrod hunts with hound, A Start - Your - Christmas - month, Shopping A cheerful chestnut-popping month Of blessed bliss, of Armistice, of turkey nicely browned. Arthur L. Lippmann. VOTE FOR ROGERS VOTE FOR SMITH VOTE FOR HOOVER suT — OPPS I comicbooks.com