APRIL 30, 1930

Full News Archive

• Headline: 'Missing' Diplomatic Agent Never Started Trip. Impact: Culture snapshot: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument. Fact: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
• Headline: Last Barrooms Are Voted Out As County Accepts Quebec Law. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
• Headline: 'Goat Gland' Specialist Summoned. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
• Headline: Equipping Playgrounds. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
• Headline: Van Wyck Sues Woman for Using His Name. Impact: Crime & Courts snapshot: The justice system is the show here: testimony, strategy, punishment, and public appetite all crowding the same headline. Fact: The drama was not just the act itself; it was how blame, evidence, and punishment were being argued in public.
• Headline: Staten Island's Population Put at 154,785, A Gain of 38,254 Or 33 Per Cent in Ten Years. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
• Headline: Pope Receives Raskobs. Impact: News snapshot: The item is small on its own, but it gives the date texture: a real notice, a real institution, and a real public record. Fact: A small archive item can still reveal what people and institutions thought was worth printing.
• Headline: Topics of the Times. Impact: Culture snapshot: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument. Fact: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.
• Headline: Commons Quizzes Thomas. Impact: Money snapshot: The money story is not abstract; it touches wages, banks, prices, relief, and the early-Depression question of who absorbs the shock. Fact: The early Depression made ordinary business news feel like a warning light on the dashboard.