DailyTimeCapsule brief
June 11, 1930
June 11, 1930 does not read like one neat chapter. It has Business Men Going Abroad Warned of New Cable Fraud, 354 Receive Degrees in Law at Fordham, T.S. Gates, Morgan Partner, Made President As Pennsylvania University Creates Post sharing the page, which gives the day a messy, useful pulse: Money, Education, Culture, News, all happening at once.
Key developments
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June 11, 1930's archive note points to Merchants' Assn of N Y C warns business men going abroad of cable frauds. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: The money story is not abstract; it touches wages, banks, prices, relief, and the early-Depression question of who absorbs the shock.
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June 11, 1930's archive note points to law school. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: The education angle shows institutions trying to look orderly while the world around them is anything but settled.
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June 11, 1930's archive note points to Made pres of Univ of Pa. The fun is in the pressure behind the notice: Culture was doing what culture does in a hard year: selling glamour, distraction, status, and argument.