DECEMBER 16, 1930

Full News Archive

• Headline: Davis-Brown Funds Put Above Million. 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: $5,000,000 Notes Refunded. 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: Goya Self-Portrait Is Sold to College. Impact: Education snapshot: The education angle shows institutions trying to look orderly while the world around them is anything but settled.. Fact: Schools and universities were part of the public story, not a quiet side room..
• Headline: Union Rejects Appeal to Forego Pay Rise. 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: Two Setbacks for Hoover. 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: Confess Rumanian Terrorist Plot. 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: Convict Ship Torn By Blast in France. 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: Sugar Slump Hits Radio. 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: Denies O'Brien Seeks to Retire. 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: Bomb Judge's Home in Danville Area. 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..