News from 1930

BRITISH CRISIS UPDATE: STERLING CONTINUED to decline, opening at $3.91 and sagging to $3.81 (vs. $4.10 on Wed. and $4.85 the previous week); rest of the foreign currency list was unsettled, tho...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2011/01/friday-september-25-1931-dow-10779-820.html

A commenter with the memorable ID of Pants-Happy recently asked to see a certain full-page Packard ad that I had referred to earlier. I find quite a few of the ads I come across from the 1930's t...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/12/some-interesting-ads.html

BRITISH CRISIS UPDATE: MARKETS RALLIED powerfully worldwide, making their best showing in many months. THE LONDON STOCK Exchange reopened after a two-day shutdown while the NYSE and the Curb...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/12/thursday-september-24-1931-dow-11599.html

After writing my recent note on Eddie Cantor , I did a search on Amazon and was delighted to find that “Caught Short: A Saga of Wailing Wall Street,” a book by Cantor about the Crash, was a...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/11/lighter-side-of-utter-catastrophe-and.html

BRITISH CRISIS SPECIAL: “GREAT BRITAIN'S second day off the gold standard, as far as the man in the street was concerned, found the country carrying on under the war-time slogan 'business as ...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/10/wednesday-september-23-1931-dow-10940.html

Continuing my little series on the amazing forgotten performers and artists of 1930. Our second Forgotten Genius is the extremely talented funnyman Eddie Cantor. It's kind of surprising he's so ...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/10/hall-of-forgotten-geniuses-2.html

NOTE: Sorry for the delay in posting, but as you'll see this day was a pretty eventful one with about double the normal quota of news, and I didn't want to skimp on the coverage because of the si...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/10/tuesday-september-22-1931-dow-11083-091.html

(Hopefully the first of a regular feature.) Important note: None of this is intended as investment advice - please do your own due diligence and make your own decisions on all investment matte...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/10/company-case-studies-1.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: EDITORIAL: While Americans are confident in men like W. Gifford and O. Young as the leaders of unemployment relief, “it is devoutly to be hoped that soon they will...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/monday-september-21-1931-dow-11174-334.html

(Hopefully the first of a regular feature.) One of my favorite things about doing this blog has been coming across the amazing performers and artists of the time, many of whom are more or les...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/hall-of-forgotten-geniuses-1.html

ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: I had intended to maintain the day-by-day summary here until July of 1932 when (spoiler alert) the Dow industrials finally bottomed out at 41 and change. I still intend to ...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/saturday-september-19-1931-dow-11508.html

ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE: I had intended to maintain the day-by-day summary here until July of 1932 when (spoiler alert) the Dow industrials finally bottomed out at 41 and change. I still intend to co...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/friday-september-18-1931-dow-12176-250.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: SEN. GLASS (D, Virginia) believes tax increase at next Congress inevitable; impossible to cut spending enough to "justify maintaining present policy of meeting def...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/thursday-september-17-1931-dow-11926.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: "HIGH WASHINGTON officials are understood to have reached the conclusion that it is time for the Federal Govt. to assume the leadership in organizing to bolster th...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/wednesday-september-16-1931-dow-12059.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: EDITORIAL: While it's reasonable that the American Legion convention next week should ask aid for its members in need this winter. However, based on the recent exp...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/tuesday-september-15-1931-dow-12130-255.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: TIMES SPECIAL reports "officials in Washington concerned with the public's apparent exaggeration of distress conditions likely to prevail ... during coming winter....

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/monday-september-14-1931-dow-12385-438.html

NO JOURNAL was published Sunday, September 13, 1931. See you tomorrow back in 1931!

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/irregular-blather-september-13-1931.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: HOUSE OF COMMONS debate adjourned until Monday on the MacDonald coalition govt.'s drastic austerity budget. PM MacDonald explained that the bill gave the govt. th...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/saturday-september-12-1931-dow-12823.html

NOTE: I only have time for a short version today, and probably for a few weeks to come, due to heavy workload ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: "POWERFUL PRESSURE" is reportedly being brought on ...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/friday-september-11-1931-dow-12730-113.html

NOTE: I only have time for a short version today, and probably for a few weeks to come, due to heavy workload ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: WASHINGTON REPORT: Administration officials seem les...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/thursday-september-10-1931-dow-12843.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: US CENSUS statistics reveal decrease in number of children in spite of growth in population over past decade; children under 1 year fell from 2.1% of the population...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/wednesday-september-9-1931-dow-12919.html

NO JOURNAL was published Tuesday, September 8, 1931, following Labor Day. See you tomorrow back in 1931!

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/irregular-blather-september-8-1931_08.html

No Journal was published Monday, September 7, 1931, Labor Day. I'm putting the week in review for last week in today's blog for consistency with other weeks. WEEK IN REVIEW: STOCKS SUFFERED...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/monday-september-7-1931-market-closed.html

NO JOURNAL was published Sunday, September 6, 1931. See you tomorrow back in 1931!

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/irregular-blather-september-6-1931.html

ASSORTED HISTORICAL STUFF: EDITORIAL: News that the $800M 20-year Treasury bond offering at 3% has already been oversubscribed is unsurprising, but will again be hailed by proponents of a hu...

http://newsfrom1930.blogspot.com/2010/09/saturday-september-5-1931-dow-13262-052.html