DECEMBER 15, 1930

Full News Archive

• Headline: Bright Spots Seen on Trade Horizon. 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.
• Headline: House Drought Bill Will Test Strength of President Today. 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.
• Headline: Excursion Boat Explodes Off Miami With 135 Aboard. 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: North-South Football Contest Planned for Jobless Dec. 27. 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: Defines A True Christian. Impact: Relief snapshot: Relief work was becoming a visible civic emergency rather than private background charity. Fact: Relief work was becoming a visible civic emergency rather than private background charity.
• Headline: Egypt Requests Us to Reduce Tariffs. 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.
• Headline: Wets Lead in Poll of Economic League. 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: Dazed By Fumes, He Drives Bus Ten Miles in Camden Traffic. Impact: Infrastructure snapshot: The fight is over movement: who gets through, who pays, and whether the modern city can keep from tying itself in knots. Fact: Modern life was becoming a logistics puzzle: streets, tunnels, ships, trains, and money all competing at once.