Life — September 1934 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis This appears to be a **Life magazine cover from September** (price 15 cents, 20 cents in Canada), featuring an illustration of a rickshaw scene. The cover credits list **S.J. Perelman, Ogden Nash, and Paul Gallico** as contributors, and advertises a story titled **"Hugh Johnson" by Pearson & Allen**. The illustration depicts a **rickshaw puller (likely an Asian laborer) straining to pull a large, well-fed passenger** through an urban landscape with industrial buildings visible behind. This appears to be **satirizing American excess or corporate power** — possibly Hugh Johnson, who was a prominent New Deal administrator. The caricature may be critiquing either his physical appearance or his perceived burden on society, using the rickshaw metaphor to comment on imbalanced power dynamics or exploitation during the Depression era.